On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ramnarayan.K <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi > > In desperation to access the internet via my BSNL / CDMA WLL phone i > reinstalled Ubuntu 7.10. I have left space for another Linux OS > (probably Kubuntu 8.10 - since i have that CD) > > The following is my HD partitioning > /dev/sda8 6.5G 2.0G 4.2G 33% / (ubuntu 7.10 root and home > /dev/sda6 92M 23M 64M 27% /boot > /dev/sda1 13G 12G 844M 94% /media/sda1 (Wince XP) > /dev/sda2 2.8G 759M 2.1G 27% /media/sda2 (VFAT Shared drive) > /dev/sda7 43G 30G 12G 73% /media/sda7 (/Home from my > previous install which i want to keep as my default home) > /dev/sda9 6.7G 2.2G 4.2G 35% /media/sda9 (space for new Linux > OS) > > Ok the main question is i tried to install a second Ubuntu with sda9 > as /root and sda7 as /home and the sda6 was the /boot however Ubuntu > 8.10 did not pick up the previously installed version of 7.10 and i > was left without my 7.10. > > When the option came to partition i selected manual and did not select > the option for the 8.10 installtion to format the /boot (which i > assume needs to be the same as my older boot partition)
I don't think you can share /boot partition. But I have never done such type of installation so I will wait for someone else to provide insights. Onkar -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
