Double installation of Mint

[karlox]

I have installed Bianca in the same HDD that it was installed Bea , in the free space avalaible . According to gnome partition manager i have the sistem like this...
/dev/hda1 and is not mounted. ( bea i think)
/dev/hda3 /,/dev/.static/dev boot (bianca i think)
/dev/hda2 with 2 linux swap partitions.

When i look for the first partition just to see the files , i cannot find them. when i reboot, grub have trouble , My intention is to move the files from one partition to the new one and format and resize. What do i need to do it work ?
how do i know what is the swap partition to erase ?
I did this because i couldnt upgrade linux mint

Carlos

[clem]

Hi carlos,

Show us the result of "sudo fdisk -l" and "mount"

Clem

[karlox]

1. point.

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Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40000000000 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4863 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1               1        3944    31680148+  83  Linux
/dev/hda2            4733        4863     1052257+   5  Extended
/dev/hda3   *        3945        4732     6329610   83  Linux
/dev/hda5            4771        4863      746991   82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda6            4733        4770      305172   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order


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/dev/hda3 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
/sys on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev)
varrun on /var/run type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=0755)
varlock on /var/lock type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,mode=1777)
procbususb on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw)
udev on /dev type tmpfs (rw,mode=0755)
devshm on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw)
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620)
lrm on /lib/modules/2.6.17-11-generic/volatile type tmpfs (rw)
binfmt_misc on /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc type binfmt_misc (rw)
fusesmb on /home/carlox/Network type fuse (rw,nosuid,nodev,allow_other,max_read=32768)
/dev/hdc on /media/cdrom0 type iso9660 (ro,noexec,nosuid,nodev,user=carlox)


Thanks for your help
Carlos

[clem]

Ok, so by the look of things you're running the Linux installed on /dev/hda3 and your other linux is installed on /dev/hda1. So to get the data out of this /dev/hda1, you need to mount the partition.

To do that open a terminal and type:

sudo mkdir /media/hda1
sudo mount /dev/hda1 /media/hda1

Then you can access your partition in /media/hda1 and maybe your files in /media/hda1/home/carlos ? (copy them over to /home/carlos for instance).

Note: One other thing. You don't need to have 2 swap partitions.. you can use the same one for both installations... simply cause they're not going to use it at the same time anyway.

Good luck,
Clem

[trsnrtr]

I have Bea installed along with XP and wanted to do a clean install of Bianca while keeping the XP and removing Bea. The auto install gives me the option of resizing my Linux partitions presumably keeping Bea and ending up with the same problem as the original poster or... it gives me the option of reformatting the entire drive which I assume will remove XP.

So, I want to end up with a clean install of Bianca and keep XP. What's the easiest way to do that?

Dennis

[clem]

http://linuxgazette.net/136/lazar.html

[clem]

Dennis: the guide above is an excellent read. However, if you already have a partition for Bea and want to replace it with Bianca, then you don't need to do anything to your partitions. Just select "do it manually" and don't do anything.. click next. Then select the Bea partition for your / and the swap partition for your swap. This will result in installing Bianca where your Bea was.

Clem

[trsnrtr]

Dennis: the guide above is an excellent read. However, if you already have a partition for Bea and want to replace it with Bianca, then you don't need to do anything to your partitions. Just select "do it manually" and don't do anything.. click next. Then select the Bea partition for your / and the swap partition for your swap. This will result in installing Bianca where your Bea was.

Clem

Thanks, Clem, I figured that out, or at least I thought it would work so I gave it a try and everything is great. Thanks, again.

Dennis

[karlox]

Thanks Clem...
I follow your instructions and it worked. i found i think that the hda partition worked only in the same session but its ok.
One more question...
Can i delete the system files of the old installation of linux and move all the data to the new linux and then erase the partion and use all that space for the new linux. ??? The old linux is not in grub so i think i will not have trouble but i am just a beginner.
Thanks a lot.
merci beaucoup

Carlos
P.s.
I think i have trouble before becouse i installed the new mint with the same username and password of the old linux mint. What do you think?

[clem]

Yes, that should be fine.

Good luck,
Clem