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Skriven 2007-06-12 14:35:34 av Charles Scaglione (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av Alan Hess
Ärende: plan to try again
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Alan Hess -> all wrote:

 AH> I took a look at the Alternate install CD of Ubuntu 7.04, and
 AH> selected manual.  I got as far as being asked about mounting the
 AH> partition I chose, and didn't know what to select.  There were a
 AH> bunch of options, including root, home, /usr/local.  I think I want
 AH> everything on that partition, including Grub when I get that far.
 AH> Which mount options should I use, and can I choose more than one
 AH> before saying "Done?"

You probably want your mount point to be "root" since you installed GRUB on the
slave drive.  Which by the way, is the correct way to do it if you don't want
your MBR overwritten.  I don't think you can choose more than one mount point. 
If I remember correctly, it won't allow that.

 AH>  There doesn't appear to be any help with the
 AH> text install.  I now know (after my disaster with 5.10) Grub must be
 AH> placed in the Linux partition on the slave drive (/dev/hdb2), and not
 AH> in the MBR (that caused my disaster by killing all the data on the
 AH> master somehow, and even restoring the partition table didn't help.
 AH> Had to reformat every partition and restore from tape backup.)

You need an imaging program to keep you out of trouble.  Acronis True Image,
Ghost, Drive Image, etc.

 AH> I used DFSEE to create two 6.5 gig Linux partitions, plus a Swap
 AH> partition, on my slave drive.  Should I mount some stuff one of the
 AH> 6.5 gig partitions, and some on the other?  If so, how should I
 AH> divide things?  And how should I format them - DFSEE formatted them
 AH> as ext/2?

Don't use ext/2.  Instead, use the Ubuntu 7.04 default which is ext/3. Ext/3 is
a journaling file system, ext/2 is not.  I don't know anything about DFSEE, I
used Partition Magic 8.0 to partition off my slave drive.  I left the Ubuntu
partition as unallocated.  The 7.04 installation program formatted the
unallocated partition to ext/3 and placed GRUB at the "root".  The two 6.5 GB
partitions (assuming one for Home, the other for Root) and the swap partition
should be OK.  But like I mentioned, you should really use ext/3 for Home and
Root.

 AH> I have eComStation 1.2R and WinXP, with IBM Boot Manager, on my
 AH> master drive.

Just setup the IBM Boot Manager (been a long time since I used it) to give you
a boot choice for the Ubuntu installation.  When the menu item is selected, it
should automatically "chain load" to GRUB on the Ubuntu root partition.  If all
is correct, you'll see the GRUB menu appear with the default item on it
selected.  If I remember correctly, you're also running XP along with eCS.  The
difference between your setup and mine is that I'm using a different boot
manager - and I don't have eCS. (Wish I did, but too expensive for now.)

Good luck and regards.







 AH> Thanks for any help.  *adh*

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