GUtsy Gibbon Queries

[kalpik]

I suggest at least 8 GB for / and 1 GB for Swap.. Install from the CD.

 

[iMav]

iv done a 10+1 and a i hva a question:

as compared to windows where hdd starts with 0 and partitions with 1 in linux both start with ) so is the partition sequence same as shown in gparted?

as in gparted a certain partition is shown at no. 5 so its address is hd0,5????

ok that was my last and final try with any linux distro - my genius and the "most secure" & "better" OS = 34 gigs of the best software & OS setups gone vanished into thin air .... thanx for ur help guys .... i guess linux and me are not meant for each other

 

[ray|raven]

Lolz dude,
Just cos u messed up durin installation doesnt make the distro crap.
I made my sis;(who by the way knows just enuf computing to browse sites and listen to music) install dreamlinux over the phone with minimal guidance.
She cud figure out most of what was written at the installer and even created the partitons with little help.
All it takes to install linux is patience and some common sense.

Regards,
ray

 

[iMav]

well not when ur trying to make a quad boot work

and i didnot call it crap i hav equally blamed my genius for expecting too much from a very customizable OS

 

[gxsaurav]

Dude, u better try Linux in Virtual Machine. Thats the safest way to try linux....then u can proceed to install on real machine

 

[iMav]

linux is coming no where near any of my machines .... me and linux are jinxed .... and im the 1 who loses so im gonna keep away from it

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

LMAO man you fugged up in partitioning and now youŕe blaming linux.hehe.

I mean you cudn't recognise your partitions by looking at their type/space/filled space?Thats stupid IMO.

Anyways happy windowing.

 

[iMav]

nope i did not mess up the partitioning that im 101% sure the drive that is gone is ntfs and i did not even hover my mouse over ntfs as a matter of fact while installing ntfs cant be selected

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

ok dude now will you please let us know the situation?The exact steps you followed and what exactly happened?Are you on windows now?You can try any recovery software.
Your full partition table would be appreciated.

If you dint touch it during partitioning then I am sure its some stupid windows problem thats why it is not shown by windows.You can try a bootable gparted cd.

 

[Faun]

lol...linux scared him

I hav got 3 hdd
This is how i installed linux(ubuntu gutsy) and Xp on my rig:
1: Plug out all HDD
2: Plugged in one HDD and installed Xp
3: Plugged out first HDD and then plugged in the other HDD and installed Ubuntu
4: Lastly Plug in all HDDs, but make the one havin ubuntu as first boot device.

Booted to ubuntu and configured grub(menu.lst) to include xp boot partition.

That is the safest way and linux was never so much easy to configure

 

[iMav]

ah what did i do wat did i do ....

for 1 killed 4 mosquitoes; hardly slept and tried installing ubuntu in quad boot atleast 3 times

i had already created the partitions using gparted all seemd well and it did even boot once but ubuntu took over mbr which i did not want so repaired my boot menu using vista dvd

now at this point the hdd partitioning of 4+1 was something i had been discussing and i decided to go for a 10+1 (i had a 26gig free partition with nothing on it) so i made the 26 gig unallocated thru gparted and re-partitioned as 15+10+1 with 10 as ext3 and 1 gb swap and 15 as fat32 and i installed ubuntu this time i chose the the partition where i wanted grub to install*

*this was needed as i am using easybcd and easybcd allows me to boot into os x vista xp and even linux from 1 boot menu - as of now os x is wrking on my pc so theres no reason why linux wudnt wrk (the software claims to boot into linux not me doing any rnd here)

so i did that and tried to boot into linux didnt work so i went back to vista dis-heartened continuing with my left over work when i realised that i was missing something in my computer and that was the status bar of my software partition

@t159 i did that for os x coz i thought os x wud be more freaky and tricky but it was a hell lot more simpler than ubuntu in all manners of installing

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

for 1 killed 4 mosquitoes.....

Just 4?You should have killed more.

... but ubuntu took over mbr which i did not want so repaired my boot menu using vista dvd

That was stupid to do everybody in this world knows grub is far better than windows boot manager.grub detects all your windows installs without any problems and setting up a dual/triple/quad boot is as easy as nothing.I dunn about OS X though never tried it.When I installed gutsy it even imported my setting from My XP MCE install(all the documents and wallpaper et al)

@t159 i did that for os x coz i thought os x wud be more freaky and tricky but it was a hell lot more simpler than ubuntu in all manners of installing

iMav seriously man don tell me you found gutsy install tough....its just 1.2.3 and done!!You boot up using live cd....double click install icon....some basic questions.....one main(/) parttion+1 swap partition....done.


BTW do you know you can make 4 primary partitions in a hard disk and OS requires primary partitions to install.

Anyways I am sure your 'lost' partition isn't actually lost but somehow not shown.You'll recover all your data if you're smart enough.

One more things Other OS like solaris(I have its DVD if you want) and PC BSD are waiting for you.Make your system octa boot or something.lols.(xp+vista+os x+ubuntu+solaris+bsd+...)

 

[iMav]

Just 4?You should have killed more.

i dont like killing any1 or anything but ubuntus frustration and their biting made me do it feel sorry for them i hope they dont come back like OM prakash makhija

iMav seriously man don tell me you found gutsy install tough....its just 1.2.3 and done!!You boot up using live cd....double click install icon....some basic questions.....one main(/) parttion+1 swap partition....done.

atleast i did not loose 34 gigs of softwares

Anyways I am sure your 'lost' partition isn't actually lost but somehow not shown.You'll recover all your data if you're smart enough.

woich try kar raha hoon

One more things Other OS like solaris(I have its DVD if you want) and PC BSD are waiting for you.Make your system octa boot or something.lols.(xp+vista+os x+ubuntu+solaris+bsd+...)

abey kyon meri bhavnaon k saath khel raha hai idhar pehle hi lag gaye hain

 

[din]

@iMav

I messed up my win partitions just like you.. But only difference is, that was about 6 yr back, it was RH 6.1 or so, I was a total noob, even about computers and while installing, I was not sure what to do and messed up win install many times.

But to be frank (no, no offence at all), installing Ubuntu created problems ? ? Really man, this is unbelievable !!!! Thats the easiest distro in the world from my experience. I installed it 2-3 weeks back in my lappy and everything went very smooth, just like The_Devil_Himself said, it is as easy as 1-2-3. I was also lil worried as a lot of important data was in lappy, but no problems at all.

Linux will not mess up your parition, thats sure and 100% guaranteed. It is something while you used the parition tool.

 

[Faun]

abey kyon meri bhavnaon k saath khel raha hai idhar pehle hi lag gaye hain

lol...i hav lost partitions many times,sometime low level defragment, too much fiddling with HDD cable, accidently deleting a partition out of sheer confidence, sometime windows disk mgmt displayed 130Gb of free space in one my HDD even when there was no way to get 20Gb free.
And then recoverd all data(97%) from those messed up partitons

Be patient nothing will happen to ur data unless u format it low level

Recently one of my HDD crashed and now am on XP. damn got some bad sectors, though recoverd the data(by thumping on the HDD) but am low on space until the RMA copy arrives.

 

[Garbage]

Should I give u one "LINK" for partition recovery s/w iMav ??

 

[Faun]

Should I give u one "LINK" for partition recovery s/w iMav ??

yeah sure

 

[Garbage]

So, here is the link..

you can download TeskDisk from here.
It's a Open Source Software.

 

[iMav]

ok porblem solved everything was saved nothing lost courtesy the great windows all hail windows

now what had gone wrong:

as i suspected my genius - i had given the location for grub as (hd0,4) which should have actually been (hd0,7) doing so resulted in grub being loaded on the partition i lost whose partition tables grub totally fugged so it wasnt showing

now what helped was the great windows as it has better and wider acceptance and software support so i simply called up my friend who previously lost a lot data as his dicks crashed a couple of times he gave me partition doctor - installed it fixed the boot of the specific partition everything fine and then went back to ubuntu re-installed it with hd0,7 and went back to vista edited its boot loader now i have vista's boot loader as primary and then when i select ubuntu it goes into ubuntu's loader and voila here i am posting my first ubuntu post

 

[The_Devil_Himself]

voila enjoy your ubuntu install.

And thanks for letting us know your stupid acts.

as i suspected my stupidity - i had given the location for grub as (hd0,4) which should have actually been (hd0,7) doing so resulted in grub being loaded on the partition i lost whose partition tables grub totally fugged so it wasnt showing