Help on installing ubuntu...

jdash1 · #1 November 6th, 2005, 05:37 PM

Pls can you guide me through installing ubuntu 5.10 ??
kinda newbie...
i'm in the part of partitioning the harddisk ...but my harddisk is already partition so...i'm looking for the option where i would choose my D:\ drive to install Ubuntu..I need to work for it perfectly so that i could not damage my Windows located in the C:\ .....pls post some site regarding to that or instruct me pls.....

Thanks for an advance.....

**kage** · #2 November 6th, 2005, 08:54 PM

Once you get to the partitioner, choose the 'manual edit' option, and edit the existing linux partitions so that it formats the swap partition, and sets the main linux partition as the '/' mountpoint.

As long as you don't touch your windows partition, nothing will happen to it.

jdash1 · #3 November 6th, 2005, 10:30 PM

here's another question :

Is it possible to get files from windows to linux ?
and can i have alink where i could learn a lot about ubuntu linux ?

JoeC0180 · #4 November 7th, 2005, 03:35 PM

Here are some links for Ubuntu that should provide you with some useful information.

http://www.ubuntulinux.org/
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/
http://ubuntuguide.org/ - this guide was written for the 5.04 release but I would imagine that a lot of the stuff still works the same in the 5.10 release.

Hope some of these links help

-Joe

Pi rules · #5 November 7th, 2005, 09:13 PM

Quote:

Is it possible to get files from windows to linux ?

Is your Windows partition formatted with FAT32 or NTFS?

jdash1 · #6 November 9th, 2005, 02:21 PM

my partition is FAT32...

Another question sir .....about ubuntu ....about its root files ?

what does ext3,ext3,LVM etc... can i have an explanation about this..?

**kage** · #7 November 9th, 2005, 04:15 PM

ext3 is a linux filesystem, as is ext2 (old), resierfs, and a few others. There is a good explanation of how the linux filesystem works here.

Since your windows partition is fat32, yes you will be able to transfer files to and from windows while using linux. Once you get ubuntu up and running, open a terminal, and run 'sudo fdisk -l', and post the output here. Then we can get your windows partition mounted under linux.

As for how to learn about ubuntu, check out their Quick Start guide and Wiki pages.

DaveQB · #8 November 11th, 2005, 07:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jdash1

here's another question :

Is it possible to get files from windows to linux ?

YES

Any File System Windows can handle, Linux can handle and then some.

Fat32 Windows partition would mean you can write to it from Linux, while an NTFS Windows partition would mean you can only read your Windows files from Linux.

Still, good enough for most.