installing ubuntu / moving in together
February 9, 2007
So, in again the LiveCD of Ubuntu and double click on install…
Step 1 to 4 are straightforward enough. Choose your location, keyboard, names for your laptop, etc… Choose manual installation unless you want to loose windows after all…
Next Ubuntu will analyze your harddisk. You’re now in Ubuntu’s own partitioning environment but since you did your homework with GParted you can click next. But make sure you have all the names of your partitions (hda1 to hda?) and what you want to use them for in your head or better yet: a piece of paper (I would have saved me 1 hour of frustrations because I was absolutely sure hda8 was my linux-swap because it came at the end, but appartenly I got named hda5 during the partitioning process…)
This part I found the most complicated of all… But nothing real will happen until after step 6 when you click the “install” button and there are plenty of error messages when you select impossible actions… And I’m still not sure if my solution will win awards but this is what I did:
/ to hda7 (for Ubuntu itself)
/home to hda8 (for my documents)
swap to swap
Beware those who don’t read this for entertainment purposes: this is probably definitely NOT a good way to perform the installation since it could have led to the situation described in the post above unaccessible partitions !
