On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 16:05:32 +0000, Lisi wrote: > On Tuesday 07 December 2010 15:00:20 Camaleón wrote:
>> I don't know how Ubuntu's installer looks like, but if you have >> unallocated space in the disk it should be detected. >> >> "/dev/sda" is the whole disk (not a Windows partition), while "/dev/ >> sda1", "/dev/sda2", "/dev/sda3" and so on... name the partitions in the >> disk. Maybe you have to manually select the partitions or tell the >> installer to look in another place (under some kind of "advanced >> settings"?). > > I have installed XP and Debian without a problem. But the other day I > needed to do exactly this, install Ubuntu 10.10 on a dual boot with > Windows. It refused to see the empty space, although I tried every > method I could think of. Because the 10.10 installation was urgent, I > wiped the XP off the disk and let 10.10 start from scratch. Annoying, > as XP had taken me a day on and off to install, was a right pain, and I > had hoped to leave it alone. I also had 10.10 refuse to quadrupal boot > on another machine with Debian and 2 other versions of Ubuntu. > > I keep hoping that Ubuntu and I will make peace. Then something like > this happens and I flee back as soon as I can to Debian. > > But 10.10 is great for getting a desktop rapidly to the point of using > multimedia to the satisfaction of my granddaughter. For everything else > I find it a pain. :-( A bug in Ubuntu installer? :-? Let me see if can find any install guide for it... yes, here: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.10/installation-guide/i386/module-details.html#di-partition Under "Partitioning and Mount Point Selection" section, it says the user can choose an "automatic/guided" or "manual" partitioning: "(...) First you will be given the opportunity to automatically partition either an entire drive, or available free space on a drive. This is also called “guided” partitioning. If you do not want to autopartition, choose Manual from the menu." I never select an "automatic" setup as it does not always sets the options I need. So if the automatic wizard fails to detect the available partitions, better proceed with "Manual". Manual partitioning has to detect the available drives and partitions, if not, the Ubuntu installer has a big problem (I understand it can have any issue for detecting fake raid controllers or some special LVM setup, but plain sata/ide hard disks and their partitions have to be detected) :-) Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2010.12.07.16.40...@gmail.com
