[Finally Solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

[dibl]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

I always do the hard drive partitioning in advance of installing Linux, and with a different tool -- I've seen various things go wrong with the "inline" partitioner, such that I don't trust it. Lately I have preferred the Parted Magic Live CD tool, from here:

http://partedmagic.com/

although at least two versions of the Gparted Live CD are still in my little toolbag:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828

From the early days of DOS, the design of PC hard drives and their controllers has permitted a maximum of 4 primary partitions. A fully satisfactory Linux installation on a single hard drive will use three, one for the OS, one for swap, and one for user data (can be used for "/home", but doesn't necessarily need to be). Up until Win XP, the MS product only needed a single partition. Vista and its successor apparently require a minimum of two, so now dual-booting with the new MS products presents somewhat of a challenge to the person who wants his/her data in a separate partition. You'll have to use logical partitions in an extended partition to dual boot with Vista or Win 7. I'm personally happy to keep my Redmond products on a VMWare VM in Linux, to minimize viral and other undesirable side-effects from running them on a direct installation. Looks like this:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/index.p...o_show&ida=249


Two cent's worth ....

[muzicman0]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

I only used the /boot partition because it was recommended if using the JFS file structure. Once I went to EXT4, it was no longer needed. I didn't know of any benefits to keeping it around, so I got rid of it.

mm0

[lightheat]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

I always do the hard drive partitioning in advance of installing Linux, and with a different tool -- I've seen various things go wrong with the "inline" partitioner, such that I don't trust it. Lately I have preferred the Parted Magic Live CD tool, from here:

http://partedmagic.com/

although at least two versions of the Gparted Live CD are still in my little toolbag:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showf...kage_id=173828

From the early days of DOS, the design of PC hard drives and their controllers has permitted a maximum of 4 primary partitions. A fully satisfactory Linux installation on a single hard drive will use three, one for the OS, one for swap, and one for user data (can be used for "/home", but doesn't necessarily need to be). Up until Win XP, the MS product only needed a single partition. Vista and its successor apparently require a minimum of two, so now dual-booting with the new MS products presents somewhat of a challenge to the person who wants his/her data in a separate partition. You'll have to use logical partitions in an extended partition to dual boot with Vista or Win 7. I'm personally happy to keep my Redmond products on a VMWare VM in Linux, to minimize viral and other undesirable side-effects from running them on a direct installation. Looks like this:

http://www.kubuntuforums.net/index.p...o_show&ida=249


Two cent's worth ....

Thanks for the input, but I'm afraid I'm already a couple steps ahead of you there. I've been using a gparted CD to make the partitions beforehand-- I only used the Kubuntu installer to make them once, and that was because it was automated. =) Other than that, I just reformat the filesystems with the installer and that's it.

Also, as for the partition information, much of that I already knew from previous experience, but thank you anyway. However, if I may offer a correction: Vista doesn't require two partitions (can't speak for 7 yet). What you may have seen is an OEM PC with a second restore partition-- something OEMs have been doing to cut down on recovery CD production.

As for the virtualization, you've already tried selling it to me. I appreciate the idea, but I would simply prefer not to, as my experience has been generally unsatisfactory compared to non-virtual installations (and trust me, I've done it plenty in the past, especially when 2000 and XP came out and I still had a boatload of 98 apps). Nowadays, I use a good amount of multimedia applications, such as audio/video editing (Audition, Premiere, etc), so I need the direct connection between the software and the hardware that I use. Yes, even on the laptop.

Thanks again for the ideas. While I present myself as a novice with Kubuntu & linux, I assure you I'm not a novice with computer concepts.

[lightheat]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

I didn't know of any benefits to keeping it around, so I got rid of it.

Good enough reason for me! :P

[lightheat]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

So, in the end, despite passing multiple HD long tests using Seatools, the hard drive eventually starting doing the Click of Death, ceased responding, and I finally returned it. I'll post again after getting a replacement hard drive (a 250GB Momentus 7200.4, for any curious) to say if I ran into any problems setting everything up on that one as well (god, I hope not).

Thanks to everyone for all your help! (Particularly to dibl, who called it right from the beginning.)

[dibl]

Re: [Quasi-solved] About to give up on Kubuntu (many, many errors)

Thanks to everyone for all your help! (Particularly to dibl, who called it right from the beginning.)

You're very welcome, and I'm sorry about the hard drive.