A little advice for getting started?

[sarahr]

And that did it. I just rebooted from the hard drive, no disc in the DVD drive, and I'm in.

Good Lord.

[sudodus]

I was only prompted to select where to put the boot partition. The drive map looks like;


/boot ext2 primary
/swap logical
/ ext3 logical
/home ext3 logical

[about 20 gigs in unallocated space for a shared partition to be formatted as NTFS later]

There is a root partition /, where the system is located. Good

[sudodus]

And that did it. I just rebooted from the hard drive, no disc in the DVD drive, and I'm in.

Good Lord.

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[sarahr]

Yes, I'll be happy to do that. I'm also going to post a summary of the problems discussed, so people can find it.

[sarahr]

On this thread, I worked through a number of issues that were hampering my install of 12.10.

1. The on-board hdd that shipped with my Lenovo laptop had a hidden partition that couldn't seem to be eliminated reliably with the various tools I'd tried.

Solution:
Boot off the live DVD.

use dd at the command line to wipe the drive.

Then launch Gparted and create a new MS-DOS partition map.

Next, launch the Ubuntu installer from the live DVD.

2. The custom install that I was attempting, separating the /boot, root and /home partitions, could not be booted due to problems with GRUB that seem to be introduced when doing this kind of a setup (an error reproduced in the current version of the Ubuntu variant, Linux Mint 14 - the "COW" error.

Solution:
After trying to run the terminal commands listed at the following URL without success, I switched to the GUI option also listed there and was able to repair my GRUB install (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...7#post10871917).

I ran the utility, rebooted and Ubuntu successfully launched.