Dual installation.

[thrylos97]

Hi I'm trying to installing dual-boot with ubuntu and windows.I follow the steps in the link http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing.
In the step 5 I see only the 3 choices below:

Guided-used entired disk
Guided-used the largest continous free space
Manual

For some reason I don't see the choice
Guided-resize SCSII(0,0,0)partition 1# and used free space.That means I do somethnig wrong.
So I can't dealing with partitioning with ubuntu and windows.I know I can use the Manual choice but because I'm a beginner in ubuntu I don't try this.My desktop cd is from last version 8.04.
Thanks in advance thrylos97.

[Partyboi2]

You might have to jump in the deep end and choose manual partitioning or use "Guided - use the largest continuous free space" If you use "Guided - use the largest continuous free space" then after you have installed use gparted (Partition editor) on the live cd to resize your windows parrtion to the size you want.

[ssican]

A Guide/Tutorial for Install Dual Boot using the Ubuntu installer's 'Guided Partitioning' feature:
http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p24.html

[dksau]

I'm sorry if this is a hijack but I can't find an appropriate thread. I have a dual boot computer (first attempt at it) using Windows XP Pro and Ubuntu 6.06. I can't get to the upgrade button to upgrade on line but I have a 8.04 ISO CD burned that I would like to use to upgrade from 6.06 using that partition without upsetting grub or MBR. How should I go about this.:)

[ssican]

dksau, using the guide/tutorial of the link:http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p24.html
on the figure 019 --step 7of7-- click on the button ADVANCED.

EDIT 1:
On this Guide/Tutorial:http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p23.html
on the step7 fig35 there is a screenshot of ADVANCED OPTIONS, after the click on button ADVANCED.
EDIT 2:
Whithot the Grub, there is not BOOT.
EDIT 3 :
UPGRADE FROM 6.06 LTS TO 8.04 LTS:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades?#head-db224ea9add28760e373240f8239afb9b817f197

[lemming465]

In general you can't easily upgrade an existing Ubuntu install from a CD. If it's one of the alternate CD's (as opposed to a live desktop) you can use the CD to cut download time by copying the *.deb files into /var/cache/apt/archives (I used find).

Did you follow the directions at Hardy Upgrade (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades)?

Note that Hardy includes a lot of new technologies including automatic X configuration and Pulseaudio sound; it's still a little rough around the edges. Bleeding edge folks are welcome to use Hardy now - I like it better than any of its predecessors, but for folks needing stability Canonical is recommending holding off until June when they plan to release a 8.04.1 respin with accumulated bug fixes.

[dksau]

ssican, lemming 465, Thanks guys I would like to upgrade on line but there is a problem after hitting the check button it won't load all of the updates and sometimes say it can't access admin something or other
so I never can get to the upgrade button. I tried the offered solution in terminal which also is not possible. There is nothing on the 6.06 partition that I need to save so I could do a clean install of 8.04 to that same partition if I knew how to stay out of trouble. Whats my method there?

[dksau]

ssican

Thank you for your help. I went to hermanlinuxmaniac and studied the page. I liked the idea of shrinking the existing 6.06 partition and installing 8.04 on the newly formated vacated space. So booted gparted and created a ext3 partition for that operation. I then started by booting windows and selected the last option and booted into Ubuntu. I have a beta CD and a released version CD of 8.04 I tried to use both. They both go into Ubuntu but with the beta the floppy drive kept hunting for files and nothing else happened. I next tried a fresh ISO CD made after Hardy Heron was released. This CD worked very slowly for what it did. Twice it stalled at 66% of the bar while search for partition data. Twice it went into guided partitioning although manual had been selected. The third time I just quit. When I rebooted thankfully 6.06 was still operable, all I had to do was set the clock. Oh the install program also stalled a couple times at USA so I selected USA alternative for keyboard layout and it got into asking for personal data but was typing incorrect characters so I aborted the install. I think I'll wait until a corrected version is released later to try again. I did successfully install 8.04 on a new hard drive that only has Ubuntu installed and it works great there except for firefox shutting down every time a second video is started. Thankfully session manager puts it back where it was before the shut down. I thought for a moment that had been corrected with some of the updates but its back and I believe that problem is in firefox.

[dksau]

After thinking about how the two CDs failed to perform I decided to burn a new 8.04 ISO and install. This time it worked. There is one reason that I won't mention here why you definitely should shrink your 6.06 partition and keep that OS as well. Thanks all for your help and consideration.

[dksau]

Now that 8.04 is installed there is just one problem so far. The computer has to be shut down with the button. A black screen with white text says “Make sure the message bus daimon is running and also Network messenger nm_dbus_signal status change assertion 'cb_data-> data-> dbus_ connection failed.

How can I correct that?