ahorne12
January 19th, 2011, 07:30 PM
Hi all,
I have been running Hardy Heron on my computer since shortly after its release, and have decided to take the plunge into the newer 10.10 version. My needs were/are simple, so I haven't learned much about Ubuntu above the very basics, but it works for me at that level. Anyways, I have installed it successfully in the same way as I originally installed Hardy (i.e. boot CD) and it works fine (I'm using it now to write this message), but it appears I did something wrong, and I'm not sure what.
1. I was unable to do a clean install over Hardy on the same partition (I have a 120 gB I had partitioned ~30/80 with the 30 being my OS drive and the 80 being my data drive) - there was a format drive option during the installation process, but it read like all drives/partitions would have been formatted, and I feared for my 80 gB partition which has all my pictures/music, so I didn't use that. Instead, it then moved to have me make a new partition (~10 gB) onto which it installed 10.10. So now my 120 gB drive is split into 10 gB (with 10.10), 26 gB (with Hardy) and 83 (with my pictures/documents/music/videos).
2. When running 10.10, and I want to go to Places/Music (or Places/Pictures, etc) from the dropdown menu, it opens empty directories in my 10 gB partition instead of linking to my files on the 83 gB - is there a way to change this through system options or something? As it is, I can find my files, but I have to navigate into the 83 gB partition from the same menu, and then to my desired directory...
3. Ideally, I would like to uninstall Hardy and dissolve that partition into the other two "drives" (to go back into a situation similar to what I had before) - is this even possible? If so, do I just format this partition and then re-allocate, or do I have to specifically uninstall/remove Hardy first?
Thanks for having a read of this, and for helping me with my problems. Everything is much appreciated.
A.
I have been running Hardy Heron on my computer since shortly after its release, and have decided to take the plunge into the newer 10.10 version. My needs were/are simple, so I haven't learned much about Ubuntu above the very basics, but it works for me at that level. Anyways, I have installed it successfully in the same way as I originally installed Hardy (i.e. boot CD) and it works fine (I'm using it now to write this message), but it appears I did something wrong, and I'm not sure what.
1. I was unable to do a clean install over Hardy on the same partition (I have a 120 gB I had partitioned ~30/80 with the 30 being my OS drive and the 80 being my data drive) - there was a format drive option during the installation process, but it read like all drives/partitions would have been formatted, and I feared for my 80 gB partition which has all my pictures/music, so I didn't use that. Instead, it then moved to have me make a new partition (~10 gB) onto which it installed 10.10. So now my 120 gB drive is split into 10 gB (with 10.10), 26 gB (with Hardy) and 83 (with my pictures/documents/music/videos).
2. When running 10.10, and I want to go to Places/Music (or Places/Pictures, etc) from the dropdown menu, it opens empty directories in my 10 gB partition instead of linking to my files on the 83 gB - is there a way to change this through system options or something? As it is, I can find my files, but I have to navigate into the 83 gB partition from the same menu, and then to my desired directory...
3. Ideally, I would like to uninstall Hardy and dissolve that partition into the other two "drives" (to go back into a situation similar to what I had before) - is this even possible? If so, do I just format this partition and then re-allocate, or do I have to specifically uninstall/remove Hardy first?
Thanks for having a read of this, and for helping me with my problems. Everything is much appreciated.
A.