Installation problem with duel boot

[Austin]

Hi all, Im new to Kubuntu and just sat down last night to install it on my home computer (i dont recall the spec atm i am at work and cant find them).
However i started to install and it saw my XP partition and the other 2 partitions but it installer will not leave my Xp partition alone at all even after deseleting it from the list.
If i remove it from the list of partitioins to be formatted and set the other two partitions for installation and swap partition, I click next and get the summery of whats to be done and there is my XP partition slated to be put to swap space along with the 3rd partition. I havent giving this much time so far but i figure i should put it out here first before it because out of control.

[otisklt]

Re: Installation problem with duel boot

Not sure if that is a bug in the installer or a desired action but yes it will mount all NTFS/FAT32 partitions it sees even if you deselect them.
I have to say despite my initial choice of not wanting to mount my XP partition I have not had any issues with it being mounted or accessed.

Here is my breakdown:
Physical drive 1:
C partition - windows XP = hda1 mount point /media/hda1
D partition - data/swap for XP = hda5 mount point /media/hda5
unmountable partition - grub = hda2 i think but there is no mount point
Physical drive 2:
unmountable by XP = hdb1 mount point /
unmountable by XP = hdb2 mount point swap
Physical drive 3:
X partition - data backups = hdc1 mount point /media/hdc1
F partition - FAT32 = hdc2 mount point /media/hdc2
I use the fat32 partition for go between

You will need to make sure that the installer is only setting a mount point like /media/hda1 for your XP partition or you risk losing it
your root mount point should be named /
and your swap mount point should be named swap

[Austin]

Re: Installation problem with duel boot

That looks spot on, I was afraid that it wants to reformat the
/media/hda1 and i would have lost my XP data
Thanks for the Info