Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[Qqmike]

You may miss home in the list because you have to work the scroll bar on the right side of that list, some entries are at the top of the list and often are not visible until scrolling up. Anyway, you got home now.

You must have clicked the "fomat" box and put a check mark in them (for sda8 ext4). No need to do that because you already did it before.

Anyway, let's get a move on here ... If it INSISTS you re-format root and home as ext4, let it do it. It won't be the end of the world, we hope, but that's why I use GParted to do all this work, not the installer partitioner.

Philosophy aside ... if you must re-format the two ext4's, no problem go ahead.

[elijathegold]

If it's definitely your / directory, then format it; it should just overwrite the files if you don't but I have carried out a (re-)install without formatting.

[logan01]

the click button does a check mark for formatting. I did it for the / partition and now it says swap and / are going to be formatted and this will destroy all data on any partitions you have removed as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted. if you continue, the changes will be written to the disks. otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually. I reckon I need to check the format button along side the other ext4 partition which is the home partition, then install, right?

[Qqmike]

Yes, good point elijathegold. logan01, he's saysing you might NOT want to reformat home if you already put valuable files in your home (docs, pics, videos, etc., or settings, like for Firefox & etc.). In this case, elijathegold, logan01 has nothing in his partitions! And THAT is the problem trying to just get the darned thing installed and up and running. Hang around, we may need more help, I might need a nap ...

[Qqmike]

Just let it format everything /, home, swap. No harm done since you have nothing in any of those.

[elijathegold]

In that case, yeah format everything except Windows

[Qqmike]

For me, it always wants to re-format swap, no matter what I do. In your case, just let it go and re-format all 3.

[logan01]

welcome to my madness elijathegold.

[Qqmike]

In that case, yeah format everything except Windows

Darn, shucks, you caught that So, OK, don't reformat your Windows ............................ let it live ...

[logan01]

For me, it always wants to re-format swap, no matter what I do. In your case, just let it go and re-format all 3.

ok. here we go through the steps.

[Qqmike]

ok. here we go through the steps.

"We"? You got a frog in your pocket?

[logan01]

If it actually installs, do I punch out, power down, remove flash drive, power up, and ........?

[logan01]

I hope it's a computer literate frog.

[logan01]

if i get that amd 64, grub, what ever it was, seems like in reseraching, you, etc that could be installed via terminal in kubuntu. If so, and it would have to be during the live session, will it keep or go away with the live session?

[Qqmike]

If it actually installs, do I punch out, power down, remove flash drive, power up, and ........?

It will inform you and prompt you. I can't recall exactly ... like Installation Complete! and asking if you want to re-boot now, to end this, etc., say Yes, and then it will prompt you when to remove the installation medium (disk, whatever), and to press Enter, and it will automatically re-boot the PC, and then you should see a grub menu offering both Windows and K(U)buntu.