Lucid CD installation didn't overwrite past one

[motorhead_1]

Hi,
I used to have a 2 partitions disk (3 if we count the swap) with win XP and Karmic 9.10. Since I had problems upgrading from Karmic to Lucid I decided to install again Lucid from the cd leaving the XP partition unchanged.
Now I think that new Lucid didn't install over the past Lucid (after upgrade) but it has created a new partition, am I right?


daitarn@daitarn-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for daitarn:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf6d9322

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1890 15181393+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1891 5992 32943769+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 5992 9729 30022241+ 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 9548 9729 1461883+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5992 9395 27335680 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9395 9547 1222656 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/sdb: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytesIs there a way to unify all the Linux partitions??

[darkod]

You are right. For your own protection linux doesn't assume that you want it to overwrite another OS, unless you specifically tell it to.
Since you didn't use manual partitioning to point it to install on the existing root partition, it created a new installation.

You can't unify them as far as I know.

But since the new install is still new, and if you don't have important data to get out of your failed Karmic upgrade, just boot into live mode, open Gparted and delete all linux partitions going back to front, all except /dev/sda1 which is your XP partition.

Then just start the installer and tell it to use Use Largest Available Free space option. That will install it into the empty space you created with deleting the partitions.

Or use manual partitioning option to set the partition sizes exactly as you want.

[motorhead_1]

Thanks! job done.



daitarn@daitarn-laptop:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[sudo] password for daitarn:

Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xaf6d9322

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1890 15181393+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1891 9730 62968833 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 1891 9548 61506560 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 9548 9730 1461248 82 Linux swap / Solaris
daitarn@daitarn-laptop:~$ I guess it's now the way it should be, though I don't know what is that 'extented' partition.