lewisskinner
May 3rd, 2011, 11:37 PM
OK, so I attempted to upgrade to Natty from Maverick. It got all the way through (VERY slowly) but then hung with 1 minute to go. When I woke up in the morning, we'd had a powercut and so the upgrade did not complete, leaving me unable to boot into Ubuntu.
So, I used my Maverick liveCD, and then downloaded and burned the Natty image and booted into it. However, when I try to install I keep getting errors if I use the 'upgrade' option, indicating that my partitions are mounted and need unmounting. If I unmount (with gparted, sudo umount or nautilus GUI - it doesn't seem to matter) I lose the 'upgrade' option entirely, with only option to delete all partitions, overwrite my current Ubuntu install or 'something else' (ie specify manually). As I set my partition table before my original install, I choose this latter option.
I then get the problem that I cannot set labels for my partitions on the install screen. My previous situation was as follows:
/dev/sda - 500GB
sda1 - ntfs - /******* - 244.14GB
sda2 - ext3 - / - 221.62GB
/dev/sdb - 1.5TB
sdb1 - FAT32 - /windowsswap - 10GB
sdb2 - swap - /swap - 10GB
sdb3 - ntfs - /data - 1TB
sdb4 - ext3 - /home - 377.27GB
but I am now longer allowed to type my own mount points - /data, /******* etc. Do I now need to do this afterwards, and if so, how?
tbh, this is a good excuse to make the update of the partition table I've been planning, with a single shared ntfs partition on the 1.5TB (also with swap for Linux and Virista) and then a triple-boot scenario on the 500GB drive with a small /home for user settings.
incidentally, do compiz and and AWN work with Unity?
So, I used my Maverick liveCD, and then downloaded and burned the Natty image and booted into it. However, when I try to install I keep getting errors if I use the 'upgrade' option, indicating that my partitions are mounted and need unmounting. If I unmount (with gparted, sudo umount or nautilus GUI - it doesn't seem to matter) I lose the 'upgrade' option entirely, with only option to delete all partitions, overwrite my current Ubuntu install or 'something else' (ie specify manually). As I set my partition table before my original install, I choose this latter option.
I then get the problem that I cannot set labels for my partitions on the install screen. My previous situation was as follows:
/dev/sda - 500GB
sda1 - ntfs - /******* - 244.14GB
sda2 - ext3 - / - 221.62GB
/dev/sdb - 1.5TB
sdb1 - FAT32 - /windowsswap - 10GB
sdb2 - swap - /swap - 10GB
sdb3 - ntfs - /data - 1TB
sdb4 - ext3 - /home - 377.27GB
but I am now longer allowed to type my own mount points - /data, /******* etc. Do I now need to do this afterwards, and if so, how?
tbh, this is a good excuse to make the update of the partition table I've been planning, with a single shared ntfs partition on the 1.5TB (also with swap for Linux and Virista) and then a triple-boot scenario on the 500GB drive with a small /home for user settings.
incidentally, do compiz and and AWN work with Unity?