Comments on: The Karmic Koala Installation Process

By: shaun

shaun — Tue, 03 May 2011 16:10:52 +0000

Been using the upgraded 10.4 for a while till my computer started making a strange noise which i thought was the fan squealing, My comp then switched of and i've been unable to reboot it as it says there is no root menu/partition. I tried to reinstall from the disc but when it gets to step 4 the page is blank and no partitions are visible. All i can click on is quit back or forward. Forward just says no partition chosen. Any help greatly appreciated thanks shaun

By: the_guv

the_guv — Sun, 24 Oct 2010 20:17:36 +0000

thank you Mr X

By: X

Sun, 26 Sep 2010 18:23:24 +0000

Cudos to you! Great work! Have a fine, profitable future!

By: the_guv

the_guv — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:10:45 +0000

@Jim .. tx for kind words.

sounds like a corrupt disk .. try burning another and installing from that.

By: jim

jim — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:54:49 +0000

Great tutorial

I have installed karmic server and jaunty desktop on this box with the same hardware before and I don't remember any real issues.

When I try and install 64bit karmic desktop this time, I can get to step 4 (partition) and the main box is empty, and I am unable to click any of the `add, revert` type buttons at the bottom, I can click forward but it tells me that nothing was selected.

if I cancel, it will load the live CD, and I can launch gparted. I blew away all the partitions on the drive and created a linux swap, and then an ext4 which I flagged as bootable. so all looks good there.

If I launch the `install ubuntu` it goes through to step 4 as normal, and the window still has nothing listed and I can not move forward with the install. if I reboot again and do the normal install, it is also still empty.

I have blown away the partitions a few times as there is nothing on the drive I care about, but I am still unable to have it going.

ideas?

thanks for the help Guv

By: the_guv

the_guv — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:52:55 +0000

@mrsfixit .. good to hear, thank you

By: mrsfixit

mrsfixit — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:04:37 +0000

Great tutorial! I've switched to Ubuntu on both my laptops, but on my netbook I just did the "use whole disk" option because I found the partitioner confusing.
Anyway, I blew away XP on my other laptop, followed your directions, created brand new partitions and installed Ubuntu Karmic. It just booted up, and so far, so good... LOL
I could not have done this without your clear, concise, EASY instructions. I find many sites have directions on doing stuff in Linux that are needlessly complicated. This page is a breath of fresh air. Thank you SO much!
BTW- to anyone who is curious- I am using full blown Karmic on my Acer Aspire One netbook. I tried Netbook Remix and had issues with it, but the full version of Karmic is a joy to use and runs great.

By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:51:20 +0000

@Nitesh .. sorry, you fell thru the cracks, or I was just ignoring you! You sorted?

Maybe I made a mistake, er, pretty sure the button's called Add!?

That's a netbook, huh? Well, you'd probably be better off with Ubuntu Remix, which is kind of Ubuntu "light", especially for those lighter machines.

Apologies for delay. Always seem to be late these days ..

By: the_guv

the_guv — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:39:21 +0000

@RSG .. m8, I can understand you are apprehensive about this cos it is, well, partitioning is just one of those worrying things .. but I can't really add anything useful that I haven't said in those 2 relevant posts in the guide, this post and Plan Hard Drive Partition Strategy which is linked above ... so read them both real thoroughly.

Sorry to nag.

then again, you could get away with 10bG for Ubuntu, PLUS whatever space you want for your docs. Then again, again, your docs ideally would be on a THIRD partition, as explained in that tut linked above, and I'd say that is best advice.

personally, I've got a few partitions:-

- one 30gB (big but I've got a tB! drive, plus another 500gB, so am kinda swimming in gigs - for my regular Ubuntu install, which contains VirtualBox with my windows install in there (how to do that is in Part 25 or so).
- anotehr couple of 25gB parts, way bigger than reqd, for playing about with servers and desktop OSes
- then about 100gB for docs
- 50gB for website dev stuff
- another 300gB for music
- near as damn it the same for warez
- the second, half-tB hard drive I use for backup.
- this and that, basically the advanced option in that partition guide.

so you see it' s a personal thing .. some serious tech-heads would probably say I've got a crap setup!

at least, IMHO, sounds like you want a solid chunk for that Windows rubbish, (which i understand is hard to wean off ), say 30 for Tux, then a big old chunk for personal docs (your /home directory), which you can access via Wins and vice versa but again read what i said on that.

lemme know how you get on anyhow, but for the love of Mike read the ruddy guide, took bloomin ages to chisel up!

one thing .. back up before you hit "go", just to be on the safe side .. not that I've ever had a problem and we were all noobs once.

By: RSG

RSG — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 00:23:37 +0000

oh...thanx for the reply sir....
I have windows xp installed on my pc(c:,20 gb).so as you have suggested 2nd option is good for me.But,exactly how much space required for ubuntu?
As you said, it will create dual boot option,its ok.But when I want to install xp only,then will it delete that dual boot option?