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Nicholas482109
September 11th, 2008, 01:00 AM
I'm running the live cd right now and I'm in the middle of the install. I want to make sure that i don't over write my MBR on my internal harddrive, again. In GParted I made a 11gb ext3 partition with a boot flag an a 480gb NTFS partition. I'm at Step 4, prepare partitions, part of the installation. When I have the ext3 partition highlighted and click forward it says no file system is defined. Should I edit it and change it to ext3 and put the mount point as /boot will everything run fine?

Pumalite
September 11th, 2008, 02:37 AM
Plant a '/' where it says 'mount point'

Nicholas482109
September 11th, 2008, 03:44 AM
Just making sure, this laptop's internal hard drive will still boot windows after that?

Pumalite
September 11th, 2008, 03:49 AM
At step 7, hit 'Advanced Tab' and change (hd0) for /dev/???; where ??? is your USB. Find out with:
sudo fdisk -lu

Nicholas482109
September 12th, 2008, 03:39 AM
I installed it twice, once telling it to install the boot loader on sdb, the drive, and once on sdb1, the partition it was installing to. Both times after GRUB loaded and i chose to boot Ubuntu it said something like Error 17, could not boot device. How can i fix this?

Pumalite
September 12th, 2008, 04:07 AM
http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p15.htm#17

Nicholas482109
September 13th, 2008, 12:39 AM
I'm looking at that now, going down each thing and seeing if it works. That's a lot of information though, can you narrow it down any more?

Pumalite
September 13th, 2008, 12:46 AM
Take a look at these threads:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=606409
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=598961
http://www.ubuntuswitch.com/2006/08/01/installing-ubuntu-on-an-external-usb-hard-drive/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=614913
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=614863
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=678146
http://ww.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=747263

Nicholas482109
September 13th, 2008, 08:35 PM
I got it to work by removing my internal drive and installed the boot loader to hd0, everything is working fine, thanks for those links. Using https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MountingWindowsPartitions/ThirdPartyNTFS3G I tried to do it the automatic way but i don't have NTFS Configuration Tool in my system tools menu. When I typed in the code it gives to open it in the terminal it loaded for a second then asked me for my password but did nothing else. What's up with that?

Pumalite
September 13th, 2008, 08:50 PM
Explain better what you did.

Nicholas482109
September 13th, 2008, 08:59 PM
I want to view my laptop's internal 160 gb drive. I typed into the terminal: gksudo ntfs-config . The mouse pointed changed to loading then a new command line appear and no window came up. I then went to so launch it from the menu applications>System tools> but the only app in there was ubuntu tweak which i just downloaded.

Pumalite
September 13th, 2008, 09:40 PM
sudo mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/??? /media/windows
??? is your Windows partition
Have to make the mount point:
sudo mkdir /media/windows

Nicholas482109
September 13th, 2008, 10:19 PM
ok I'll try that next time I go into ubuntu, but why can't I see the NTFS configuration tool in the menu?

Pumalite
September 13th, 2008, 10:26 PM
Maybe you have to install it.

Nicholas482109
September 15th, 2008, 01:49 AM
Ok so I got everything running but a few last things to work out. How can I get my Trash in my AWN? How do I add awn to the start up list? And is there anything I can put an icon into the awn to show all the workspaces in the desktop cube? Also the weather screenlet doesn't seem to be working even after I put in my zip code, does it need a weather location code?

Pumalite
September 15th, 2008, 02:37 AM
Make a new thread with an appropriate tittle.