[Gllug] Discovery Day

[David Reed]

I was thinking of coming along on Saturday because I would like to 
reinstall Ubuntu on my new box, but it involves a problem that was 
recently discussed here with no satisfactory conclusion. For me, the 
effort of bringing the box, and cables, and labelling them all, in 
addition to driving into central London from Buckinghamshire and parking 
near enough to New Cavendish Street to carry the equipment to the campus 
is a hassle, so I wondering whether it is worth it. Here is the story so 
far.

Recently, my old machine expired, so I bought a replacement featuring an 
AMD 64 processor and a 200 GB SATA hard drive. My first move was to 
reinstall XP on to a FAT32 partition and shrink it. Then I split the 
hard disk into a number of other partitions, including one purely for 
data. I also installed two legacy IDE hard drives from the old machine 
and moved the files across to their new home. Then I tried to install 
SUSE 9.1 on one of the IDE disks and had nothing but grief. In the end, 
I disconnected the two legacy hard drives and decided to install Ubuntu 
5.10 for 64 bit on the SATA disk alongside XP. That worked okay, except 
that I could only read the contents of  the Windows directories, not 
write to them, which is, apparently, the default arrangement. I tried a 
number of remedies but finally managed to render the installation 
unusable, so I replaced Ubuntu with SUSE 10 for 64 bit because it is 
more user friendly. However, I would like to install Ubuntu again but 
there is little point unless I can access my data from any of  the 
operating systems. I would like to reconnect and use one of those two 
reformatted hard disks for the purpose. So, what I am asking is whether 
someone who feels confident about helping me to make the installation 
involving two IDE disks and a SATA one, without wrecking the existing 
system, feels sufficiently interested to come along on Saturday?

If you need any more information, and I am sure that you will, then I 
will be only too willing to supply it if I have the technical means to 
do so. Please remember that I am an historian, not a software engineer.

David Reed

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