[Novalug] Ubuntu installation
W Alan Day
dayalan@nova.org
Wed Jun 27 06:18:26 EDT 2007
Rich,
When you get to the partitioning screens during install, select the
manual option. When it comes up, select each of the linux partitions
you want to preserve and define the mount points ((/home, /data, & /)
and then go on. I don't know if you can stop it from formating those
partitions.
Alan
Rich Goodwin wrote:
>I downloaded Ubuntu 7.0.4 adn am ready to load it onto my laptop. /home
>and /data are two partitions on the disk that I do not wish to lose.
>Before I start, can someone verify that I can have the ability not to
>overwrite these partitions? I would be surprised if I couldn't .....
>but I don't want to be surprised!
>
>Rich
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