wn1ytw
April 20th, 2014, 05:43 PM
Pardon my newbiness please. I have 12.04 installed on several machines in different ways but in none of them did I deal with setting up partitioning.
The install in question this time is on a Asus 1015E DS03 that has 12.04 LTS preinstalled, it works well. In the last two days I have been fighting with it to upgrade to 14.04 LTS. I finally got it to get through the on the net upgrade on the second attempt to have it immediately have errors. I ended up destroying the working 12.04.4LTS and today, er.. (yesterday now) tried again with a USB stick. That finally got burned after several tries due to incompatible sticks.
Now I got the live part working and tried to install but my choice is “something else’ which wants me to specify the mount points, etc. All way above me! I couldn’t even take screenshots as I was in the ‘live’ USB and the program I’m used to using is not on the stick. There are 4 partitions visible plus the hidden boot one. The 4th has 108GB free I’d like to give to Trusty and have 12.04 stay - so what I wish was that the old ‘alongside’ option had been there, but not even with the 108GB free did it give me that option. I’ll put a screenshot on my dropbox of the current scheme: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-19%2020%3A52%3A07.png . The 12.04 is in 192GB partition — more than enough room for 4 different linux systems, so I guess if I gave half to Trusty LTS with the other half staying Saucy LTS it would work fine but I have no clue how to specify that in the setup!
More pictures:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A11%3A56.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A12%3A39.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A13%3A26.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2012%3A04%3A49.png
I think I would like to add 14.04 LTS to sda2, is that possible without hosing 12.04? And just how? Or must it take sda4?
I’d love a walkthrough of ’something else’ showing me exactly how to install trusty alongside the existing 12.04LTS install — PLEASE!
Having read these as well as others, my head is spinning:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/04/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-ubuntu-11-04/
The install in question this time is on a Asus 1015E DS03 that has 12.04 LTS preinstalled, it works well. In the last two days I have been fighting with it to upgrade to 14.04 LTS. I finally got it to get through the on the net upgrade on the second attempt to have it immediately have errors. I ended up destroying the working 12.04.4LTS and today, er.. (yesterday now) tried again with a USB stick. That finally got burned after several tries due to incompatible sticks.
Now I got the live part working and tried to install but my choice is “something else’ which wants me to specify the mount points, etc. All way above me! I couldn’t even take screenshots as I was in the ‘live’ USB and the program I’m used to using is not on the stick. There are 4 partitions visible plus the hidden boot one. The 4th has 108GB free I’d like to give to Trusty and have 12.04 stay - so what I wish was that the old ‘alongside’ option had been there, but not even with the 108GB free did it give me that option. I’ll put a screenshot on my dropbox of the current scheme: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-19%2020%3A52%3A07.png . The 12.04 is in 192GB partition — more than enough room for 4 different linux systems, so I guess if I gave half to Trusty LTS with the other half staying Saucy LTS it would work fine but I have no clue how to specify that in the setup!
More pictures:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A11%3A56.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A12%3A39.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2008%3A13%3A26.png
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/88302677/Screenshot%20from%202014-04-20%2012%3A04%3A49.png
I think I would like to add 14.04 LTS to sda2, is that possible without hosing 12.04? And just how? Or must it take sda4?
I’d love a walkthrough of ’something else’ showing me exactly how to install trusty alongside the existing 12.04LTS install — PLEASE!
Having read these as well as others, my head is spinning:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DiskSpace
http://www.linuxbsdos.com/2011/05/04/manual-disk-partitioning-guide-for-ubuntu-11-04/