Fear of partitioning !

[Ephem]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

Wow, thanks alot !
So, as I have a 180GB hard drive, do you reccomend :
120GB NTFS Windows
59GB ext3 / (the name of the partition is / or /root ? **confused** )
1GB swap swap (which I am gussing is like RAM, no ?)
Thansk a lot for all those replies =]

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

the name of the partition is / or /root ? **confused**

the mount point is /
the rest seems ok; i personally create another partition where my configs and docs go, to make it easier with reinstalling, should it be necessary

[Ephem]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

Completely failed and screwed my system up...
The installation and the whole Linux stopped (jammed) at 36%, afer 1hour, I rebooted and it said "no operating system" or whatever
I then go in Linux (CD) again and try to install again, in vain, 36% jam...
So I formated/whatever my hard drive to get Windows back, I now have a hard drive with 80GB less space...
The other partitions are probably still there, but where ?
And what am I supposed to do ?

[musta ruhtinas]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

check the cd for integrity at boot, perhaps it freezes due to a faulty download; you could run a memory test as well and see if there are errors

[Ephem]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

I'm starting to get annoyed with Linux
For now, I won't install it, but, how can I recuperate my 80GB of space ?

[javierrivera]

Re: Fear of partitioning !

Boot with Kubuntu Live CD. Select the "start" or "k" menu. In the System submenu there is a program called QTParted, open it.

You will see a map of your hard disk on the right side of the screen. Click on the Linux partitions, and when they are selected, click delete.

Click apply.

Select the Windows partition. Click resize. Make the green bar as big as possible dragging the borders. Click OK

Click apply.

If you don't trust linux, there are some other windows-based utilities like partition magic that can do it.

Javier.