The last time I had a problem like that, I used the disk manufacturer's
utility to erase the hard drive. Though I didn't even need to do the
full erase -- the quick erase that targeted the first part of the drive
did the job. (This is assuming that there is nothing on the drive that
needs to
of changing my process to rely entirely on
upgrading (along with total backup of my home directory). A good thing
about upgrading, is that you don't have to re-install all the special
software packages you use.
--
Sincerely,
Aere
-Original Message-
From: Chris Green
To: lubun
Added four missed words:
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 4:09 PM, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
>
> If you do not want the 11.10 installation, make sure you delete it.
>
> Type the following
==> in a Terminal window,
>and copy and paste the results here, so as to give
> you instructions on how to do it:
>
> No
On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 3:24 PM, Chris Green wrote:
>>
>> It seems as if the new installation doesn't see the 'first disk' as the
>> actual first disk used when the system boots.
>>
> That was it! There are three SATA devices on the system:-
>
> SATA Channel 1 master - CDROM
> SATA Channel
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:38:11PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> > > >What you describe suggests that the installation process put your
> > > > new GRUB
> > > >on the other drive, and when you booted, it went to the old GRUB,
> > > > which
> > > >was left untouched on the first drive, b
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:34:30PM +, Chris Green wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:32:14AM +, Chris Green wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:46:30PM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote:
> > >Chris:
> > >
> > >I am far from an expert on this, but my recent experience seems to
> > >
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 10:32:14AM +, Chris Green wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:46:30PM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote:
> >Chris:
> >
> >I am far from an expert on this, but my recent experience seems to
> >indicate you need to put GRUB on the disk that automatically gets booted
On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 04:46:30PM -0700, Aere Greenway wrote:
>Chris:
>
>I am far from an expert on this, but my recent experience seems to
>indicate you need to put GRUB on the disk that automatically gets booted
>from.
>
>I have often seen the installer recommend putting i
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 12:56:51AM +0200, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> > I am trying to install a new Lubuntu 12.10 onto a machine here. It's a
> > pretty standard sort of desktop machine with nVidia chipset, intel dual
> > core processor and two 3
rely,
Aere
-Original Message-
From: Chris Green
To: lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: New installation failing to take over from old installation
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2013 21:30:42 +
I am trying to install a new Lubuntu 12.10 onto a machine here. It's a
pretty standard sort of deskt
On Wed, Jan 2, 2013 at 11:30 PM, Chris Green wrote:
> I am trying to install a new Lubuntu 12.10 onto a machine here. It's a
> pretty standard sort of desktop machine with nVidia chipset, intel dual
> core processor and two 320Gb SATA disk drives.
>
> The installation seems to work with no proble
The last time I had a problem like that, I used the disk manufacturer's
utility to erase the hard drive. Though I didn't even need to do the
full erase -- the quick erase that targeted the first part of the drive
did the job. (This is assuming that there is nothing on the drive that
needs to
I am trying to install a new Lubuntu 12.10 onto a machine here. It's a
pretty standard sort of desktop machine with nVidia chipset, intel dual
core processor and two 320Gb SATA disk drives.
The installation seems to work with no problems, I tell it to use the
whole of the 'first' SATA disk for th
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