Re: Mouse trapped in taskbar
well, your partitions should already be set up, so boot up the live CD, go through the install process until it talks about disk partitioning, and choose 'manual'. It should list your partitions. hopefully you will be able to tell which partition is /, /home, etc. double click on your existing '/' partition, and select to format, mount as /, and whatever format you want (ext3 or ext4). Do the same with your /home partition (except select to mount as /home)...only choose to format this partition if you don't mind losing data (as a side note, if you don't have a separate /home partition, now would be a good time to make one...also, if this is the case, you will have to backup any data you want to keep that resides in your /home partition).
The installer should pick up your windows partition, and add it to the grub menu, but if it doesn't, it can be added later.
Above all, use common sense...I typed the above from memory, so if something doesn't seem right, please ask. while I believe the above is correct, I'm not responsible if you lose data. With that being said, I do this every few months, and I've never had problems, unless I'm trying out a different distro.
mm0
well, your partitions should already be set up, so boot up the live CD, go through the install process until it talks about disk partitioning, and choose 'manual'. It should list your partitions. hopefully you will be able to tell which partition is /, /home, etc. double click on your existing '/' partition, and select to format, mount as /, and whatever format you want (ext3 or ext4). Do the same with your /home partition (except select to mount as /home)...only choose to format this partition if you don't mind losing data (as a side note, if you don't have a separate /home partition, now would be a good time to make one...also, if this is the case, you will have to backup any data you want to keep that resides in your /home partition).
The installer should pick up your windows partition, and add it to the grub menu, but if it doesn't, it can be added later.
Above all, use common sense...I typed the above from memory, so if something doesn't seem right, please ask. while I believe the above is correct, I'm not responsible if you lose data. With that being said, I do this every few months, and I've never had problems, unless I'm trying out a different distro.
mm0
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