On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 7:38 PM, Avneesh rai <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everyone, > First: > Actually a friend of mine has XP professional installed on his computer n > wanna install ubuntu with it on some other drive > but when ubuntu cd is put during boot tym..... and it boots using ubuntu > CD a DOS type terminal of ubuntu is opened with admin as root: > ad...@... : > somethiing like this was in prompt. Plz help how to move ahead with the > installation n provide necessary commands if necessary. > Note:with same CD on another computer normal graphics installation > interface comes so if possible metion the reason for this terminal interface > in this case what is the version of ubuntu CD ? take latest 9.10 ubuntu CD. while installing first check CD/DVD has defect or not. If you are not getting installation GUI then try to install using text mode GUI. (text mode GUI is different from console or terminal which you are getting) > > > Second > if ubuntu is being installed along with windows on C drive with 256Mb RAM, > and in total 3 drives C,D,E manual partiion is being selected (Ubuntu to be > installed on D sizing 29 gbs) is it sufficient to have: > > 1) 512 mbs as SWAP logical > 2) rest of free space as mout point '/' Logical Size is sufficient (D drive) . But it must be ext3 formatted.
> > kindly clear the point as it shows some error. What is the error ?? > -- > with regards, > Avneesh Rai > http://avneesh.tk > > Sent from Delhi, DL, India > > -- > Do you have another question? Click here - > http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post > Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug -- ┌─────────────────────────┐ │ Narendra Sisodiya ( नरेन्द्र सिसोदिया ) │ Society for Knowledge Commons │ Web : http://narendra.techfandu.org └─────────────────────────┘ -- Do you have another question? Click here - http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug/post Read archive - http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ l...@iitd community mailing list -- http://groups.google.com/group/iitdlug
