To install Ubuntu 14.04 on a new 1T drive I moved the cables from the current internal drive to the new drive. I installed from a DVD. I chose the default partitioning.
First question: Everything went as expected, except fdisk -l shows: /dev/sda1 .97x10^9 blocks ID 83 Linux /dev/sda2 6.2x10^6 blocks ID 5 extended Partition 2 does not start on a sector boundary /dev/sda5 6.2x10^6 blocks ID 82 swap (I expressed the block count that way for brevity.) Is the starting of partition 2 not on a boundary because the memory installed is 6,260,740,096 bytes (5Gb) ? Is it a problem? If yes, how do I correct it? (Re-install is fine. I have not done anything with the new drive.) Second question: My desktop computer has an internal SATA drive and a SATA drive dock. The dock is normally used to hold my backup drive. Can I do the install in the dock, copy data from the old drive to the new drive, then move the new drive to the internal location? Will the drive then be known as /dev/sdb1? How do I tell the install program to find the external drive? Thanks, -Denis _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
