lpatti31
November 29th, 2011, 05:07 AM
I am trying to upgrade from 9.10 to 11.10 on a dual boot system with Vista. Since I don't want to install 11.10 alongside 9.10, and don't want to overwrite Vista, I have to choose "Something Else" from the "Installation Type" menu. This is where I get confused. My partitions are:
sda1 ntfs 75000mb. This is the Vista partition.
sda6 ext3 212000mb. This is Ubuntu 9.10
sda7 swap 9000mb.
sda5 swap 9000mb.
sda2 ntfs 12000mb. This is the Vista recovery partition.
I assume I want to select SDA6 for the overwrite, keeping the partition size. Do I want to remain with ext3? I assume I should format the partition.
How do I know which mount point to choose? I am guessing /home?
My choices for "Device for Boot Loader" are:
dev/sda ATA Fujitsu 320 GB
sda1 Vista
sda6 Ubuntu 9.10
sda2 Vista
I am hoping to have the GRUB loader offer me the choice between 11.10 and Vista at boot.
All help appreciated.
Len
sda1 ntfs 75000mb. This is the Vista partition.
sda6 ext3 212000mb. This is Ubuntu 9.10
sda7 swap 9000mb.
sda5 swap 9000mb.
sda2 ntfs 12000mb. This is the Vista recovery partition.
I assume I want to select SDA6 for the overwrite, keeping the partition size. Do I want to remain with ext3? I assume I should format the partition.
How do I know which mount point to choose? I am guessing /home?
My choices for "Device for Boot Loader" are:
dev/sda ATA Fujitsu 320 GB
sda1 Vista
sda6 Ubuntu 9.10
sda2 Vista
I am hoping to have the GRUB loader offer me the choice between 11.10 and Vista at boot.
All help appreciated.
Len