Looks like this is a pretty active thread, and someone must have come across the same problem i'm having. I have two hard disks in my computer, sda and sdb. I'm currently running Ubuntu 8.10 from sdb, but it has been patched and upgraded so many times (from 6.06) that i'd like to do a fresh install onto sda (keeping my install on sdb just in case).
My current fdisk -l output:
Code:
rb4@corsair:~$ sudo fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00042f46
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 33 265041 83 Linux
/dev/sda2 34 555 4192965 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda3 556 14685 113499225 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 * 14686 14946 2096482+ 83 Linux
Disk /dev/sdb: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x0003eadd
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sdb1 * 1 14759 118551636 83 Linux
/dev/sdb2 14760 14946 1502077+ 5 Extended
/dev/sdb5 14760 14946 1502046 82 Linux swap / Solaris
rb4@corsair:~$
I have an .iso of the 8.10-desktop image, so I tried using that to create a boot partition on /dev/sda4. I had to select "USB drive" and select "show all drives" before I could select /dev/sda4 though. Once that was done, there was no indication in my /boot/grub/menu.lst that anything had changed... I think it's relying on the USB boot capability of my BIOS to take care of that for me.
How can I get it to do an install to /dev/sda4, and make the appropriate entries in my /boot/grub/menu.lst?
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