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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?
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It can be a little confusing at first,especially after plain old C`s & D`s eh.
The grub bootloader will always offer to install the grub to the mbr of the first drive(hd0?) unless you tell it otherwise.
If you have Windows on the drive then you would obviously need to repair the MBR if you ever decided to remove *buntu again.
It`s easy enough to do with your recovery console or a 98 bootdisk even.
Just going with those defaults for Grub to the MBR is fine though imho.
This confusion(i`m getting confused myself here just thinking about drives) is one of the reasons why i always suggest a nice unallocated partition and letting the installer use the "largest continuous free space".Especially when it`s possibly the first time/s installing.
Manual partitioning & creating the extra partitions is all well & good.... once you get your head round the various terms etc.
Gparted can be slow & even problemtic from the Ubuntu cd at times but i always use the Gparted live cd for any manual partitioning jobs.
I`ve never had problems with Gparted on it`s own cd although i have with the one
on the Ubuntu cd itself.
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You do have a point, however that would require setting aside an entire HDD for Linux, rather than just 24GB [10GB /, 4GB swap, 10GB /home] on my 500GB drive, which is what I'm trying to do.
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You could get a few *buntus on that thing eh,all of them in fact,plus the other top 99 distros over on distrowatch probably
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cat /union/boot/grub/device.map
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The only thing that will result in from a live Ubuntu cd is...
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cat: /union/boot/grub/device.map: NO such file or directory
Not too sure about the "union part"??
Even without the union part though there is no "/boot/grub/device.map" in the live cd environments file system.It wont exist until after grub is actually installed it seems.
Normal sudo commands will not ask for a password in the live environment but trying to be root will of course.
Not sure why you would want to become root in a live cd though...unless you mabey doing some rescue work of some sort
