acimna
July 31st, 2009, 03:13 PM
After several forum requests, one failed Hardy installation and two failed Jaunty installations and repeatedly reading all the documents recommended to me, I tried to partition the Hard Drive from the CD booted System/Admin/Partition Editor as follows:
1 Primary Partition: NTFS (about 10Gig)
1 Extended Partition (about 200Gig) - swap (4Gig), / (5Gig), /home (100Gig), /boot (250Meg)
That left about 250Gig free space
Hit the apply button to get an error reading of a failed partition that wrote something I don't understand to the root and prompting me to read the details.
The recommendation was that I go to http:/gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/save_details.htm
As the new machine shares a monitor, keyboard and mouse with this old Pentium II I'm working on, I shut down the new machine in order to go to the recommended website - only read that I should not have exited at all - and a lot of technical jargon I don't understand anyway.
This really is getting a bit much to bear right now, so don't even dare recommend that I opt for a different OS, okay? :D
I do not deny that I am uninformed, perhaps not that intelligent, over-eager and most likely have made some serious mistakes, but is there really no-one out there with the patience, courage and empathy to help this fool onto the right track ... ANYONE?
Ps. I downloaded Jaunty for the second time last night (it takes about 7 hours in Namibia) and burnt the 3rd CD at 4X only to get the same message I got with the Canonical CD - a faulty file on the CD. So I've been working from a CD with a faulty file because it will take about 3-4 weeks for the Canonical replacement CD to ge here (they dispatched it today).
1 Primary Partition: NTFS (about 10Gig)
1 Extended Partition (about 200Gig) - swap (4Gig), / (5Gig), /home (100Gig), /boot (250Meg)
That left about 250Gig free space
Hit the apply button to get an error reading of a failed partition that wrote something I don't understand to the root and prompting me to read the details.
The recommendation was that I go to http:/gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/tips/save_details.htm
As the new machine shares a monitor, keyboard and mouse with this old Pentium II I'm working on, I shut down the new machine in order to go to the recommended website - only read that I should not have exited at all - and a lot of technical jargon I don't understand anyway.
This really is getting a bit much to bear right now, so don't even dare recommend that I opt for a different OS, okay? :D
I do not deny that I am uninformed, perhaps not that intelligent, over-eager and most likely have made some serious mistakes, but is there really no-one out there with the patience, courage and empathy to help this fool onto the right track ... ANYONE?
Ps. I downloaded Jaunty for the second time last night (it takes about 7 hours in Namibia) and burnt the 3rd CD at 4X only to get the same message I got with the Canonical CD - a faulty file on the CD. So I've been working from a CD with a faulty file because it will take about 3-4 weeks for the Canonical replacement CD to ge here (they dispatched it today).