spectre1989
September 26th, 2010, 03:35 PM
Hi all,
It's been a while since I've played with Ubuntu, and a linux evangelist at work has talked me into trying it again.
My specs:
Motherboard: Abit FP-IN9
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
RAM: 2GB (one of my sticks recently went bad)
Graphics: Nvidia 8800 GTX
Hard Drives: 2 x 500GB Western Digital SATA
I happened to be wiping my machine, so my plan was to have Windows 7 and Ubuntu on one hard drive (100GB for Ubuntu, the rest for Windows), and the second hard drive for downloads, TV, films, etc.
First I installed Windows, then I torrented the x64 Ubuntu 10.04 live CD iso, and burned it to a DVD. I booted from it and installed on the second partition, but I then found when I booted back into windows that my second hard drive wasn't there any more.
It didnt take long to work out that Ubuntu had installed using the second hard drive as a mirror. This is very confusing to me, as I've disabled RAID in my BIOS. I booted from the Ubuntu CD again and looked for options about this but didn't find any. Eventually out of frustration I just unplugged the second hard drive, but now when I boot from the CD to install, no hard drives show up for me to install to.
Can anyone help a newbie out?
Cheers!
Spec
It's been a while since I've played with Ubuntu, and a linux evangelist at work has talked me into trying it again.
My specs:
Motherboard: Abit FP-IN9
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600
RAM: 2GB (one of my sticks recently went bad)
Graphics: Nvidia 8800 GTX
Hard Drives: 2 x 500GB Western Digital SATA
I happened to be wiping my machine, so my plan was to have Windows 7 and Ubuntu on one hard drive (100GB for Ubuntu, the rest for Windows), and the second hard drive for downloads, TV, films, etc.
First I installed Windows, then I torrented the x64 Ubuntu 10.04 live CD iso, and burned it to a DVD. I booted from it and installed on the second partition, but I then found when I booted back into windows that my second hard drive wasn't there any more.
It didnt take long to work out that Ubuntu had installed using the second hard drive as a mirror. This is very confusing to me, as I've disabled RAID in my BIOS. I booted from the Ubuntu CD again and looked for options about this but didn't find any. Eventually out of frustration I just unplugged the second hard drive, but now when I boot from the CD to install, no hard drives show up for me to install to.
Can anyone help a newbie out?
Cheers!
Spec