got the CD of UBUNTU 7.10

[heartripple]

hi i got the cd of UBUNTU 7.10 now i want to install that os on my drive so pls help me .and plase cosider me as newbie at LINUX.


My PC cofigration is :
AMD ATHLON 64 x 2 4200
ASUS M2N-MX
1 GB DDR 2 667 Mhz
320 GB WESTERN DIGITAL HDD
SONY DRU 170 AW DVD writer

i have a prtition named d with 30 gb space

[FilledVoid]

http://www.howtoforge.com/the_perfec...u_gutsy_gibbon Should give you more than enough details to install it. however please check if your system works with the Live CD.

[Rahim]

oye filevoid that link is amazing. Its like teaching a child how to walk!!!
Everything explained so lucidly and the new user will feel quite at home provided he/she reads it and has patience.

[debsuvra]

Also you can wait for some 14 days and then grab 8.04. Your 7.10 is old BTW.

[FilledVoid]

oye filevoid that link is amazing. Its like teaching a child how to walk!!!
Everything explained so lucidly and the new user will feel quite at home provided he/she reads it and has patience.

yeah I ahve it bookmarked and usually give it to anyone who wants tot ry UBuntu .

[heartripple]

very useful link

[heartripple]

installed UBUNTU 7.10 but i am not able to open other partition of my HDD and i found there are two file in each partition named wubildr and wubildr.mbr
what this files doing in my HDD

[gary4gar]

Mount Partitions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

For whose files, they are related to the wubi installer.
What way did you install Ubuntu?
did you use the Wubi installer?

[DigitalDude]

howtoforge.com is a god send.. I learnt a lot about configuring linux servers (esp CentOS) and other server softwares...


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[heartripple]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Mount Partitions
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Au...ountPartitions

For whose files, they are related to the wubi installer.
What way did you install Ubuntu?
did you use the Wubi installer?

i followed the simple installtion method and i dont know what is wubi installer

[Faun]

i hope u havent screwed the partitions

[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by ketanpatel

i followed the simple installtion method and i dont know what is wubi installer

Define Simple installtion?

[heartripple]

Originally Posted by T159

i hope u havent screwed the partitions

actually i did i have partition my 30 gb free space as "/", swap, and EXT2

whats wrong with that

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by T159

i hope u havent screwed the partitions

haha dont scare him


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[Faun]

how much space for swap and / ?
and what is ext2 partition, isnt it supposed to be ext3 ?

[heartripple]

Originally Posted by DigitalDude

haha dont scare him


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guys tell me i did anything wrong

[DigitalDude]

nothing wrong... that why I said that....


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[gary4gar]

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Define Simple installation?

@ketanpatel
You didn't answer my question
Can you tell us, how you installed your system.
FYI, there are many ways to install a Ubuntu System.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation

[Faun]

look here is my partitioning scheme

/ (root partition) as Ext3 type and of 14GB
Swap - well there is no swap for me


Ideally U should have made this something like this:

/ (root partition) Type: Ext3 Size:atleast 3GB
/boot (boot partition) Type: Ext3 Size: Atleast 100MB
Swap Size: twice the amount of RAM

what type of partitioning u chose, Guided installation or complete manaul installation ?

[ray|raven]

Ideal? Who said ext3 was the ideal format?

And why /boot? IMO , for a newbie 2 partitions are more than sufficient,
/ - ~5Gigs (Dont want to run out of space later)
swap - 2 * RAM - Not more than 1Gig.

[Faun]

K then replace it with generally
Btw I dont use Swap, i kinda made my distro slow tih Swap enabled.

[heartripple]

Originally Posted by T159

look here is my partitioning scheme

/ (root partition) as Ext3 type and of 14GB
Swap - well there is no swap for me


Ideally U should have made this something like this:

/ (root partition) Type: Ext3 Size:atleast 3GB
/boot (boot partition) Type: Ext3 Size: Atleast 100MB
Swap Size: twice the amount of RAM

what type of partitioning u chose, Guided installation or complete manaul installation ?

i did something like that but dont know xactly is there any other way to know it

[Faun]

post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

[heartripple]

Originally Posted by T159

post the content of fstab file

gedit /etc/fstab

and

sudo fdisk -l

how to get through that command i dont know pls help me to do so

[Faun]

open a terminal and then write these commands and press enter.

Terminal is in Applications > Accessories > Terminal menu

[heartripple]

here is the answer of gedit /etc/fstab

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
# /dev/sda11
UUID=82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb / ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /dev/sda1
UUID=A880246980244064 /media/sda1 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda9
UUID=0CC819FFC819E82A /media/sda10 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda5
UUID=A6E4BB85E4BB5671 /media/sda6 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda6
UUID=3800DDA800DD6D7E /media/sda7 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda7
UUID=B8783943783901A4 /media/sda8 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda8
UUID=A01891A4189179CC /media/sda9 ntfs defaults,umask=007,gid=46 0 1
# /dev/sda10
UUID=2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb none swap sw 0 0
/dev/hda /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto,exec 0 0
/dev/fd0 /media/floppy0 auto rw,user,noauto,exec 0 0



here is the answer of sudo fdisk -l

Disk /dev/sda: 320.0 GB, 320072933376 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38913 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb4c4b4c4

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2550 20482843+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2551 38912 292077765 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 6467 7771 10482381 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7772 11296 28314531 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda7 11297 15212 31455238+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda8 15213 25786 84935623+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda9 25787 38912 105434563+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda10 2551 3219 5373679+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda11 3220 4435 9767488+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda12 4436 6466 16313976 83 Linux

Partition table entries are not in disk order

so guys is everything all right or not

[Faun]

ur swap(sda10) itself is 5GB
and root partition(sda11) is 10GB approximate
last partition(sda12) is not used and is 16 GB, its not even mounted as there is no entry in fstab

U should have been able to acces ur ntfs partitions as fstab entries are correct.

post ouput of
mount -a

and

blkid

[ray|raven]

Why do you have two ext2 partitions if you just started linux, and why is one of them not mounted?

I'm talking about sda12.

[heartripple]

mount -a

shown only root can do that




blkid

/dev/sda1: UUID="A880246980244064" LABEL="WINDOWS XP" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda5: UUID="A6E4BB85E4BB5671" LABEL="WALLPAPERS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda6: UUID="3800DDA800DD6D7E" LABEL="INSTALL" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda7: UUID="B8783943783901A4" LABEL="SOFTWARES" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda8: UUID="A01891A4189179CC" LABEL="VIDEO SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda9: UUID="CC819FFC819E82A" LABEL="SONGS" TYPE="ntfs"
/dev/sda10: TYPE="swap" UUID="2ef9ec5d-8912-4f78-8afb-87890de89edb"
/dev/sda11: UUID="82effd8d-7a6c-44f1-8c99-720d251d8feb" TYPE="ext2"
/dev/sda12: UUID="339571db-7157-4cbc-9419-bd80e6f9faa6" SEC_TYPE="ext2" TYPE="ext3"

[Faun]

yeah i mean
sudo mount -a




it looks safe and sound