so just to see for my self I DL'ed the Kubuntu-12.10-i386.ISO last night ,
today made a live USB with the usb-startup disk creator in my 12.04 install
the HD in my laptop looks like this
sda2-is Kubuntu-12.04-x86_64's / root
sda3-is Kubuntu-12.04_/home
sda5-is the new Kubuntu-12.10-i386 , was my Ubuntu-12.04-x86_64
sda6-backtrack-5 , or a testing partition
sda7-storage used by all installes
swap was active during install and as we see their are lots of partitions .
at the prepare disk part of the installation I chose manual , clicked the sda5 and then change , told it to use as ext3 and / for the mount point and to format it .
at the bottom of the partition window I set sda5 for the bootloader installation (I dont want 12.10 controlling this , that is 12.04's job
)
that’sabout it .....the install proceeded fine and I am typing this in rekonq from the new 12.10 install
maby different hardware or bad .ISO's or bad live-USB's are to blame for the several posts about the 12.10 installer not working right .
VINNY
EDIT : forgot to mention that rebooting to the new install did not require booting into 12.04 and update-grub as my 12.04 grub just loads the boot loader in sda5 and sda6 ,,,,,,, kudos to @Oceanlover for the work in this department
today made a live USB with the usb-startup disk creator in my 12.04 install
the HD in my laptop looks like this
vinny@vinny-HP-G62:~$ sudo parted -l[sudo] password for vinny:
Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 4195MB 4195MB primary linux-swap(v1)
2 4195MB 26.0GB 21.8GB primary ext4 boot
3 26.0GB 237GB 210GB primary ext4
4 237GB 500GB 264GB extended
5 237GB 268GB 31.6GB logical ext3
6 268GB 300GB 32.0GB logical ext4
7 300GB 500GB 200GB logical ext4
Model: ATA WDC WD5000BEVT-6 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 32.3kB 4195MB 4195MB primary linux-swap(v1)
2 4195MB 26.0GB 21.8GB primary ext4 boot
3 26.0GB 237GB 210GB primary ext4
4 237GB 500GB 264GB extended
5 237GB 268GB 31.6GB logical ext3
6 268GB 300GB 32.0GB logical ext4
7 300GB 500GB 200GB logical ext4
sda3-is Kubuntu-12.04_/home
sda5-is the new Kubuntu-12.10-i386 , was my Ubuntu-12.04-x86_64
sda6-backtrack-5 , or a testing partition
sda7-storage used by all installes
swap was active during install and as we see their are lots of partitions .
at the prepare disk part of the installation I chose manual , clicked the sda5 and then change , told it to use as ext3 and / for the mount point and to format it .
at the bottom of the partition window I set sda5 for the bootloader installation (I dont want 12.10 controlling this , that is 12.04's job
) that’sabout it .....the install proceeded fine and I am typing this in rekonq from the new 12.10 install
maby different hardware or bad .ISO's or bad live-USB's are to blame for the several posts about the 12.10 installer not working right .
VINNY
EDIT : forgot to mention that rebooting to the new install did not require booting into 12.04 and update-grub as my 12.04 grub just loads the boot loader in sda5 and sda6 ,,,,,,, kudos to @Oceanlover for the work in this department
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