Re-install Ubuntu

[scruie]

What's the best way to re-install Ubuntu?

Current system has one hdd partitioned into 4;

Windows, Data and Backup all using NTFS. And Ubuntu on another. Boot is managed by GRUB.

Need to do this as I've completely buggered up Ubuntu trying to get Beryl to work: seem to have more missing components than anything, so much so it crashes alot.

[Criminal.Sausage]

Guess using a live disk Of the new feisty (http://releases.ubuntu.com/feisty/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso). suppose you know how to install.
though pay attention with the partitioner, i fscked (nice word play, isn't it?)up all of my partitions, don't remember how. but anyways pay attention;)

--Edit:--
just rememberd how i screwed things up: Ubuntu insisted on installing on my windows partition, I refused. couldn't get it to install on my "D: \" Drive. just went back and forth in the installer, to see if i could fix it. then in a moment where i didn't pay attention, trying to increase the size of my d drive, i erased my windows partition. with no way back, ubuntu suddenly recognized the correct partition. so now i'm only running on ubuntu, left windows behind forever;)

[scruie]

The problem is that it wants to install itself on a new partition (create it from another Windows one).

I need or want to re-install the current installation.

[cuteharez]

Select manual setup instead of using the guided one. scruie you should try open SUSE its more easy then unbuntu.

[scruie]

Nuked the hdd and started again. Gave me a chance to resize all the partitions and make a 'proper' FAT32 Data partition for both Windows and Linux to use.

[Virtuosofriend]

why not NTFS?

[cuteharez]

Linux can't work with NTFS.

[scruie]

Yes it can, I had all of my NTFS partitions mounted. It's just that FAT32 seems to be less trouble.

[Virtuosofriend]

Linux can't work with NTFS.
You are wrong my friend, i am running ubuntu and linux from the same HDD and it is NTFS.

Less trouble as in scruie?

[Criminal.Sausage]

Yup, NTFS support is possible. you can try the NTFS 3G drivers. (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/). they enable full read and write support for Linux on NTFS file systems.

[scruie]

You are wrong my friend, i am running ubuntu and linux from the same HDD and it is NTFS.

Less trouble as in scruie?

I used Automatix to install a third party app to read and write to NTFS partitions; it was very stable and I got faster read/write times when transferring data from a USB memory stick using Ubuntu then I ever got in XP.

All of my problems were self made, I tried - unsuccessfully I might add - to dismount the main Windows installation drive which caused all of my problems.

That and Beryl....

[Virtuosofriend]

I see. But you got Beryl running right?

[dM]

heh, my winxp x64 180day trial ran out, and now my comp reboots after about an hour of use. I installed XUbuntu 7.07, and now everything is working the way I want to :)

Just one question, any good printers that have support? Something in the 50-100$ range is what im looking for.

oh and whoever suggested SuSE - I've ran SuSE for several years, infact, it was the first distro i ever used. It took me about 4 hours to configure everything the way i wanted it to be (I had NTFS mounted, complete video playback on all formats, complete audio playback on all formats, cedega for video games, Wine for applications, and some more custom stuff). Mind you, this was 2005-2006ish, so I don't know how much easier SuSE has become...

[luck777jojo]

I believe there are a lot of drivers out for HP, so maybe something cheap... and not too new from HP

[scruie]

I believe there are a lot of drivers out for HP, so maybe something cheap... and not too new from HP

Yup, Ubuntu supported my PSC2355 HP printer nicely.


Anyhow, since it was my own fault for buggering up my install trying to get beryl to work, I've decided to use Wubi and 'test' Beryl out again. Once I've become more familiar with using the terminal and script editor I'll make the Wubi install permanent. Which is a shame as I really enjoyed using Linux on my laptop.

[cuteharez]

Thats funny i got an error when installing linux open suse with NTFS.

[scruie]

Thats funny i got an error when installing linux open suse with NTFS.

VF is using WUBI to install his version of Ubuntu - that natively supports NTFS.

As for myself Ubuntu was installed on it's own partition using EXT2, to mount and be able to read/write form the NTFS partitions it was necessary to install a third party 'driver'.

[dM]

ew ext2. Ext3 is far faster at read/write. at least thats what i found.

I installed ntfs-3g driver to be able to get RWX capabilities.