I’m somewhat new to linux and such, however I installed Ubuntu on my machine that was already running XP. I did that about a week ago and I have been messing around with Ubuntu and somehow screwed stuff up to the point where there are errors at startup and shutdown (tried googling to fix them which I couldn’t find a solution). I don’t really remember what I did to cause these errors, but since I only installed Ubuntu about a week ago I thought can’t I just go through the same installation process again on the same partition? I put in the live CD and tried to go through the installation process again, however at the end of this they said they were going to install it on partition 1 (My partition with XP) and the grub bootloader on partition 5.
So my question is, is there any easy way to reinstall Ubuntu so I can have it fresh and error free like it was to start with? In the Live CD is there a way to select what partition I want to install Ubuntu to (I looked and couldn’t find)?
you can choose the manual partition option, you will have the xp partition, a large ext3 partition, and a smaller (500-1000 megs) linux-swap partition
the ext3: check the format box, this will erase it and choose a mount point of /
the swap: i think you dont have to do anything to
and xp: just leave alone
then it will be all good
also, i would reccomend against yahoo answers as linux people generally arent on here, sign up for the official ubuntu forums at http://www.ubuntuforums.org
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Yes just delete all ext3 partitions but leave the NTFS/FAT partitiions of windows as they are. Make new partitions with mount points / , /home and one for Swap. After that just accept the defaults settings for GRUB and install.
You will have to go through the manual partitioning option.
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