Partition instructions for preschoolers?
I am about to stick a gun in my ear over this, I have for hours been trying to figure out the how to partition a front end machine.
new 160 gig wd drive. Ran through the basic set up and got the /dev/sda error so I read through the forums, everyone said do a manual partition so I did that with multiple partitions as instructed but am constantly confronted with a no root found error. I am a wiz with mac and PC but this has got me stumped dead.
How the hell do you correctly partition a drive for mythbuntu?
Re: Partition instructions for preschoolers?
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Originally Posted by
RTIInstaller
I am about to stick a gun in my ear over this, I have for hours been trying to figure out the how to partition a front end machine.
new 160 gig wd drive. Ran through the basic set up and got the /dev/sda error so I read through the forums, everyone said do a manual partition so I did that with multiple partitions as instructed but am constantly confronted with a no root found error. I am a wiz with mac and PC but this has got me stumped dead.
How the hell do you correctly partition a drive for mythbuntu?
if someone could point me to a link on this site regarding basic partitioning that would also be super appreciated :)
Re: Partition instructions for preschoolers?
Re: Partition instructions for preschoolers?
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Originally Posted by
tgm4883
What /dev/sda error?
When installing a fresh copy of mythbuntu the install progresses all the way up to where you select you time zone and then hangs with a banner that says /dev/sda error "ignore, retry, cancel". I have 5 identical machines I will be using as front ends they all give the same error. I finally just got past this 15 minutes ago on one of the machines I have no idea why it finally worked this time. I am going to clone that drive to the other machines so I can hopefully avoid this problem with the remaining 4
Thank for the reply
Re: Partition instructions for preschoolers?
Some links, I always use gparted to partition and then use manual install to choose which partition is / (root), swap is normally found automatically if created in advance.
gparted & fdisk instructions:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/In...gANewHardDrive
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoPartition
GParted partitioning software - Full tutorial
http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/gparted.html
Screenshots of using gparted
http://www.howtoforge.com/partitioning_with_gparted
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oldfred
Thank you!
