It's been a wild kubuntu ride for me the last few weeks. It started out with my 12g hd drive getting so full (I only had 304mb available) that the gui would not boot. So I did a windows thing and ordered a new computer. while I was waiting I did what several things that this forum suggested including removing strigi. Wow, did that work! My 12g hd was now only using 3.4g. That was great but I already had a new box ordered with a 250g hd.
So I get the new box, with no operating system installed, and start to do a clean install of 8.04. First problem. The resolution was such that the mouse pointer was about 3 inches long and all I could see of a page was the top left 3 or 4 inches of a page. Now what do I do? Tried again in safe mode and it worked. I got everything installed and working then remembered that this forum suggested having a separate /home partition. So I read up, installed gparted, printing out the steps to take, etc.
I booted up to the live cd again, going to the "try" portion as suggested, and get to the point were it says to open gparted and it's not there! The guide I was using was written for Ubuntu which I understand comes with a partition editor installed. I then decided to reinstall so I could manually set up the partitions but I couldn't understand how to do it (I had only used the default partitions before). I have read everything I can find about /home partitions. Can anyone help me out?
So I get the new box, with no operating system installed, and start to do a clean install of 8.04. First problem. The resolution was such that the mouse pointer was about 3 inches long and all I could see of a page was the top left 3 or 4 inches of a page. Now what do I do? Tried again in safe mode and it worked. I got everything installed and working then remembered that this forum suggested having a separate /home partition. So I read up, installed gparted, printing out the steps to take, etc.
I booted up to the live cd again, going to the "try" portion as suggested, and get to the point were it says to open gparted and it's not there! The guide I was using was written for Ubuntu which I understand comes with a partition editor installed. I then decided to reinstall so I could manually set up the partitions but I couldn't understand how to do it (I had only used the default partitions before). I have read everything I can find about /home partitions. Can anyone help me out?
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