A couple of days ago I tried to install Kubuntu Feisty herd 3 (Live
CD)on my laptop ( triple boot XP Home/XP Pro/Kubuntu 6.10) and the
partition creation part of the Install hosed my hard drive.
I've installed Ubuntu/Kubuntu many times ( I have it currently on 5 PCs)
and had no problem with thie installation in any way before - I did
nothing different here - reformat existing Kubuntu partition and keep
existing Swap partition.
Now I have 2 XP partitions with bad partition table info, one partition
ext3 empty except for "Lost and Found" - this was my Data partition and
all data is gone - and what was my Kubuntu partition - now unformated -
Swap has disappeared and space added to ubformated partition.
Stupidly I did all of this before checking the Ubuntu Community Forums
(http://ubuntuforums.org/) which warn of qparted problems ( providing
that you search for the problem) with Feisty.
THe Live CD of Feisty Herd 3 runs fine.
Hope this save somebody a problem
Here's the testdisk analysis of my hard drive
TestDisk 6.3, Data Recovery Utility, March 2006
Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/hda - 60 GB / 55 GiB - CHS 116280 16 63
PTestDisk 6.3, Data Recovery Utility, March 2006
Christophe GRENIER <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
http://www.cgsecurity.org
Disk /dev/hda - 60 GB / 55 GiB - CHS 116280 16 63
Partition Start End Size in sectors
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 20479 15 63 20643777
D HPFS - NTFS 20479 12 1 40799 15 63 20482812
P Linux 40800 1 1 61598 15 63 20965329
D Linux 61598 8 1 63686 15 63 2105208 [/]
D Linux 63686 5 1 116264 15 63 52999317 [/]
Structure: Ok. Use Up/Down Arrow keys to select partition.
Use Left/Right Arrow keys to CHANGE partition characteristics:
*=Primary bootable P=Primary L=Logical E=Extended D=Deleted
Keys A: add partition, L: load backup, T: change type, P: list files,
Enter: to continue
EXT3 Large file Sparse superblock Backup superblock, 10734 MB / 10236
MiBartition Start End Size in sectors
D HPFS - NTFS 0 1 1 20479 15 63 20643777
D HPFS - NTFS 20479 12 1 40799 15 63 20482812
P Linux 40800 1 1 61598 15 63 20965329
D Linux 61598 8 1 63686 15 63 2105208 [/]
D Linux 63686 5 1 116264 15 63 52999317 [/]
As yet I haven't figured out how to use Testdisk to hopefully correct my
problem - any advice appreciated.
Bill
I've just been having a look at the new Feisty Fawn (groan!) version of
Ubuntu. In the Add/Remove programs options, there is a one-stop version
of installing restricted software. It seems to be a replacement (or
more likely, an incorporation) of Easy Ubuntu.
As I mentioned earlier, I have been trying to set up my friend who is
an ex-Windows person. Just doing the Easy Ubuntu installation was not
enough on his machine (or mine) to get everything working. I followed
the routine here
http://www.ehomeupgrade.com/entry/2812/how-to_setup_debian and most
video and sound file formats seem to play automatically.
This route worked on my Debian Sid, my Feisty Fawn and an older Ubuntu
Dapper.
Cheers,
Alan
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