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Alien · 03-11-2007, 18:35

I've had a bunch of probs trying to get Kubuntu to install, so much that I'm now trying Ubuntu. The problem I've got at the moment is different ways of referring to HDDs. In the partitioning bit of the installer, & in GParted, it refers to drives as hda, sda, & sdb, but in the advanced options to choose which drive to put the bootloader on, it has hd0 as the default option, so would sdb be hd2?

On a different note - why is it that GParted & the installer's partitioning section take an eternity to get the partition info from the drives, when it takes less than 10 seconds in XP, either in XP's own applet or Partition Manager?

03-11-2007, 18:35	#12
Alien Inactive Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: UK Services: VM Phone, V+, VM 10Mb Posts: 2,655	Re: Multi-booting Linux & XP I've had a bunch of probs trying to get Kubuntu to install, so much that I'm now trying Ubuntu. The problem I've got at the moment is different ways of referring to HDDs. In the partitioning bit of the installer, & in GParted, it refers to drives as hda, sda, & sdb, but in the advanced options to choose which drive to put the bootloader on, it has hd0 as the default option, so would sdb be hd2? On a different note - why is it that GParted & the installer's partitioning section take an eternity to get the partition info from the drives, when it takes less than 10 seconds in XP, either in XP's own applet or Partition Manager?