I would very much like to setup Ubuntu to try on my machine, but I don't totally want to ditch Suse just yet either (and I need my Windows partition as well for school programs like SPSS).
I'm not even sure what my current partitions look like because I don't know how to check. Is there a command to use to list the partition information? The commands fdisk and cfdisk aren't available.
I know this is probably a big project, but... help?
fdisk -l (as root) will list the partitions on your box
heres what the results looks like on my SLED 10 box,
please paste your results here
cheers
anyweb
Quote:linux-7386:~ # fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 80.0 GB, 80026361856 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9729 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 262 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 263 1568 10490445 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 * 1569 9729 65553232+ f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1569 2874 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 2875 4180 10490413+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 4181 9729 44572311 83 Linux
Terrific! I didn't realize that you had to be logged in as superuser. Thanks for the tip.
Here's the info:
Code:
Disk /dev/sda: 100.0 GB, 100030242816 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12161 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 1685 13534731 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 1686 12161 84148470 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 1686 7055 43134493+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 7056 7247 1542208+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda7 7248 9221 15856123+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 9222 12161 23615518+ 83 Linux
Nevermind!
I went ahead and just installed ubuntu over my previous Suse installation. Now I have the exact setup I wanted in the first place!
[*] NTFS Support
[*] Windows XP running via QEMU
[*] Easy Updates
[*] Multimedia buttons work
[*] Beryl + XGL Working Awesome
Ubuntu is awesome... really. I'm wondering how Edgy will be when that's released stable.