Preparing for installation
Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2007 2:48 pm
At present Gparted in SystemRescueCD is creating a new 4 GB partition to be /, a 20 GB partition to be /home, and a 2 GB partition formatted as Linuxswap. That's the only one which I can mark appropriately for its intended use. I have put a boot flag on the one for /root.
That's happening in my PC - I'm sending this from my laptop where Firefox is installed in a Windows system - the process is taking a very long time. I'm hoping for a reply before it is complete!
Those partitions are in a 200 GB disk which is at present in an adapter on SATA1; I shall move it to be Primary Master in IDE1 and then install Celena. Celena is already on the present Primary Master disk which will be temporarily removed; booting problems are occurring - BIOS repeatedly fails to recognise it, ultimately succeeding after increasing delays.
I have copied my home folder to another location from where I shall copy it into the new installation.
This enquiry is about properly identifying the root and home partitions in advance - I have managed this for root in the past, but not for home. I can't see a facility to do this in Gparted, nor was I able to do so during the Install process from the system cd - burned from the downloaded iso image file.
I shall be most grateful for advice. [Sent ~ 8 p.m. BST]
Added later using Edit facility:
Install failed to detect any HDD devices! So it was not possible to proceed.
BTW - even in the version of Celena running from the CD, Help was not available. Same message in box.
So I returned disks to (nearly)* their former positions and this time, Celena booted immediately with no delay - first for a long time. Perhaps it was simply bad connections - though I find that hard to believe. I viewed Device Manager in the CD version - no HDDs shown. Now they are all there, with the new partitions which I created from the SystemRescueCD. However, the partition intended to be / for the intended new installation is not mounted.
* Now, SATA 1 has 500 GB SATA disc and SATA2 has 200 GB SCSI disc in adapter.
Incidentally, there was a problem detecting .dmrc - that is now solved, thanks to advice from Boo.
There remain the questions - how are partitions prepared which will be recognised as a proper site for a new Mint installation - and how is the required Help for Celena made available? [Sent ~ 00.30 BST]
That's happening in my PC - I'm sending this from my laptop where Firefox is installed in a Windows system - the process is taking a very long time. I'm hoping for a reply before it is complete!
Those partitions are in a 200 GB disk which is at present in an adapter on SATA1; I shall move it to be Primary Master in IDE1 and then install Celena. Celena is already on the present Primary Master disk which will be temporarily removed; booting problems are occurring - BIOS repeatedly fails to recognise it, ultimately succeeding after increasing delays.
I have copied my home folder to another location from where I shall copy it into the new installation.
This enquiry is about properly identifying the root and home partitions in advance - I have managed this for root in the past, but not for home. I can't see a facility to do this in Gparted, nor was I able to do so during the Install process from the system cd - burned from the downloaded iso image file.
I shall be most grateful for advice. [Sent ~ 8 p.m. BST]
Added later using Edit facility:
Install failed to detect any HDD devices! So it was not possible to proceed.
BTW - even in the version of Celena running from the CD, Help was not available. Same message in box.
So I returned disks to (nearly)* their former positions and this time, Celena booted immediately with no delay - first for a long time. Perhaps it was simply bad connections - though I find that hard to believe. I viewed Device Manager in the CD version - no HDDs shown. Now they are all there, with the new partitions which I created from the SystemRescueCD. However, the partition intended to be / for the intended new installation is not mounted.
* Now, SATA 1 has 500 GB SATA disc and SATA2 has 200 GB SCSI disc in adapter.
Incidentally, there was a problem detecting .dmrc - that is now solved, thanks to advice from Boo.
There remain the questions - how are partitions prepared which will be recognised as a proper site for a new Mint installation - and how is the required Help for Celena made available? [Sent ~ 00.30 BST]