Dear Desmond and Jacqui, <br><br>I'm pretty sure Ubuntu has installed because I started the install process again thinking it had failed but when I got to the partitioning it was proposing to install besides the existing partition of Ubuntu. I think the problem is the lack of or misplacing of grub. <br>
<br>The hard disk is 80 gb. It is partitioned with Windows C and D drives and now apparently Ubuntu. The Ubuntu segment is around 18 gb.<br>
<br>Sorry Jacqui, not clear how you get at sfdisk - this is all new to me.<br><br><br>Westerham<br><br> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 6:25 PM, Jacqui Caren-home <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jacqui.caren@ntlworld.com" target="_blank">jacqui.caren@ntlworld.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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On 11/07/10 21:00, Malcolm Harris wrote:<br>
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Thanks for the suggestion Desmond,<br>
<br>
I got an install disk burnt after 3 attempts and I think I did a partitioned install on the decrepit PC (Windoze Explorer is saying that it's disk has shrunk).......*but* unfortunately I can't get the dual boot option just cluttering clanking XP as usual!<br>
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O.K.<br>
Need to do a little analysis here.<br>
Firstly do you know what the size of the harddisk is? You may need to actually look at the label on it to be sure.<br>
<br>
Now there are a couple of things I would suggest:-<br>
<br>
Firstly download a copy of Puppy, burn a CD and then boot from that. This is a useful tool as it will show the partitions. As it runs as a Live CD it does not do anything to your existing system. In fact the panic button is remove the power.<br>
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Now another tool which is rather good is gparted (<a href="http://gparted.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">gparted.sourceforge.net</a>). This tool shows the partitions and you can manipulate them, but be careful, very careful.<br>
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While trying to recover my local disks I used<br>
<br>
sfdisk -s to get the size of each hard drive<br>
then used sfdisk -l /dev/xxxxx to dislap the partitions.<br>
<br>
i.e.<br>
[root@dieter ~]# sfdisk -s<br>
/dev/sda: 488386584<br>
/dev/sdb: 1953514584<br>
/dev/sdc: 1953514584<br>
/dev/sde: 488386584<br>
/dev/sdf: 1465138584<br>
total: 6348940920 blocks<br>
[root@dieter ~]# sfdisk -l /dev/sda<br>
<br>
Disk /dev/sda: 60801 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors/track<br>
Units = cylinders of 8225280 bytes, blocks of 1024 bytes, counting from 0<br>
<br>
Device Boot Start End #cyls #blocks Id System<br>
/dev/sda1 * 0+ 12 13- 104391 83 Linux<br>
/dev/sda2 13 60800 60788 488279610 8e Linux LVM<br>
/dev/sda3 0 - 0 0 0 Empty<br>
/dev/sda4 0 - 0 0 0 Empty<br>
[root@dieter ~]#<br>
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The trick is to NOT run sfdisk without an option!<br>
<br>
I also used a live distro that had sshd and networking.<br>
Then I could ssh into the machine from another box and cut and paste<br>
the output (like above) into a file. Saves having to write all of the above<br>
guff by hand. *shudder*<br>
<br>
Jacqui<br><font color="#888888">
Jacqui</font><div><div></div><div><br>
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