From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KL4k1-0002Nn-Tg for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:24:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2EA43E0526; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:24:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from wf-out-1314.google.com (wf-out-1314.google.com [209.85.200.175]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EB142E0526 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:24:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wf-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 23so1344698wfg.10 for ; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=OLEjy8ef/E+XgBdUeile6dcadETfal5Qw4h6pgzOvwI=; b=w6+sPMJMO+A8FXRoRq11kfI9f2+QZNiblC4xrhnkCyBbvo4Jkw0aeyXxVX5D0ftrlZ UZyN0Ro1BPyJN0pU63jNsYYvW22zvZ46eainybPqk+L24IovK9kwjl0aAdbdD0g8b7Qc 81LttPcbZelQPSHQmHDBE5gqMilDqbBzqYbFs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=p3xjynxvDeZiw3jEQRmOdsS2aNVCtMa4ywPIjjOQMJwY8znN0b5/Yns3w/iEp6QLFG DvlCt/qqZSjeVQpCKc7gK9yczAb4qGp3QhyXmCjzKmpPxOE8RFdS7iztA1CTfqS2TFqj dQtXATjFRVY+AS/7L5N1G2x0MS6xlIwda9lhc= Received: by 10.142.245.6 with SMTP id s6mr1565860wfh.187.1216682667470; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.161.14 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:24:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bef1f890807211624m4c1f7775k3afdc908e4f5d6d7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 09:24:27 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] A few questions on trying to install In-Reply-To: <20080721233310.5e4ab493@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <7bef1f890807202247q79d4568sa8b9e6ab11499e43@mail.gmail.com> <200807211129.51178.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <48849003.70406@ep.mine.nu> <200807212316.11623.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20080721233310.5e4ab493@zaphod.digimed.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: e0a9b24f-9865-4738-a293-2850337811ee X-Archives-Hash: 23ddad0ecfa433e0802baaac628b6cbc Comments for this thread have been helpfu. I have done a test install from the live install cd. For now, I guess, 74 GB is enough for the entire system, leaving out my older /home directories and archives, so I just let the installer pick a preferred partitioning configuration. Next I think I'll try LVM for some partitions. During the installation, the installer quit at the 50% point, right after installing the optional packages, and would not restart. This had thrown me off during previous attempts. As it turned out, it was simply necessary to copy the boot information from /boot/grub/grub.conf over to Ubuntu's existing grub/menu.lst. So far, so good. Thank you. Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@gmail.com "It's never a matter of liking or disliking ..." ---Santa Ynez Chumash Medicine Man "We have no art. We do everything as well as we can." ---Balinese saying