On 8 April 2012 12:55, Norman Silverstone <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >> >> > snip > >> >> >> >> >> >> You are right, I am seeing that too. The side by side option seems >> >> >> not to be there. >> >> >> Do Something Else takes one to the manual setup page. >> >> > >> >> > I would be quite happy to do a manual set up if I could be sure not to >> >> > ruin everything else on the HD. >> >> >> >> Open a terminal (in your normal booted system) and type >> >> df >> >> Copy and paste the results here. In a terminal Ctrl+Shift+C copies to >> >> the paste buffer. >> >> >> >> none 1024860 0 1024860 0% /lib/init/rw >> >> Well at least that is nice and simple. If you boot into the installer >> and go into Something Else then you should see >> /dev/sda >> /dev/sda1 >> /dev/sda2 (it might be a different number) >> where sda2 has type Swap and sda1 is ext3 or ext4. It does not matter which. >> sda1 should show a size of 140GB or thereabouts with 85GB used. You >> first need to shrink this to make room for 12.04. >> First though make sure you have backed up everything important just in case. >> >> Click on sda1 and click Change. It will show the partition size as >> 140000 (MB) or thereabouts. Reduce this by about 10000 to allow 10GB >> for 12.04. So if it were 140000 change it to 130000. MOST >> IMPORTANTLY leave Use As set to do not use, and do NOT select Format. >> Click OK which will show a warning about writing it to disk and that >> you will not be able to undo it. Click Continue. >> >> Go and have a cup of coffee while it shrinks the partition. >> >> When it is finished you should a new entry marked as Free Space or >> 10000MB. Select this one and click Add. >> Set the Mount Point to /, leave the rest at default and click OK >> >> It should now show the new partition as type ext4, mount point / and >> Format ticked. >> DOUBLE CHECK that the other partitions have nothing under Mount Point >> and are NOT ticked for formatting. >> Offer a quick prayer or sacrifice to any Deity you consider relevant >> and click Install Now. > > Thanks, Colin that looks pretty straight forward. Just one question, > where you say Set the Mount Point to /, is the ',' necessary or just > punctuation?
No comma, use the drop down list to select / from the options there. Colin > > Norman > > > -- > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- gplus.to/clanlaw -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
