troubled installations

[Avraham Hanadari]

> > 
> Forgive me for being unclear. I now have no faulty partitions. The 
> problems I described were encountered during two installations of Ubuntu 
> that resulted in evident partition confusion (see description in my 
> first letter). I reformatted the entire hard disk on both occasions and 
> started from scratch. I wish to find out why I had the difficulties. It 
> seems that others did not have such difficulties, and I cannot 
> understand why this is so. It may be because no one has actually checked 
> their partitions with Partition Magic 8, instead of the XP tools.
> 
> Yesterday I resized my existing three partitions (XP, data fat32, data 
> fat 32) and created an unallocated 15 GB section awaiting the arrival of 
> a guest (XP, Unallocated, data, data). Since the normal installation 
> resulted in problems, I shall try it this way, later today when I can 
> accumulate the courage to make the attempt.
> 
> Wish me luck!
> 
> Avraham Hanadari
> 
> 
For all those helpful souls who were there to aid me in my travails ...
here's an update. I installed Ubuntu into the unallocated partition, and
all went well. I am now writing from Evolution. After installing the ton
of updates made available, I restarted the computer, but checked in at
XP to see the condition of the partitions. Partition Magic again showed
a big ugly BAD label on the entire hard disk! I then went into the XP
disk manager and was pleased and surprised to note that XP could see all
the partitions just fine, and even said they were all healthy! I guess
the original problem had to do with Partition Magic 8 and not with the
Ubuntu installation. If only I'd known to use the XP tool before.
Anyway, thanks to you all. Now I'll start again with the setup problems.

Avraham Hanadari