new guy checking in has new problem(s)

[Jimmy Montague]

Thanks for all the help, everyone. I did the "sudo apt-get install
gparted" trick (courtesy Ulin the Tech Mage) and it worked very nicely.

I was able to delete those evil Windoze partitions on hdc. Now I have
another problem -- 

I can't for the life of me figure out how to reformat the drive so
Ubuntu will allow me to mount it. Something about a "mount point" and a
disk label. Then there's the fact that I don't know how to set up a
partition if I don't intend to boot from the drive. Do I still need a
"swap" partition and a "boot" sector?

And which is the first thing that has to come first?

8-) Yeesh! an' all that sh_t 8-(

And thanks again for the apt-get solution.

jimmythewriter

On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 17:33 +0000, pkaplan1 at comcast.net wrote:
> -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: Steven Davies-Morris <sdavmor at systemstheory.net>
> > Jimmy Montague wrote:
> > > 
> > > Right now I need some help with hdd administration. My system has 3
> > >  hdds: I have two 80-gig ide Western Digitals. One is Master on the
> > >  primary strap; the other is Master on the secondary strap. The
> > > third drive is an 80-gig Maxtor mounted externally via USB.
> > > 
> > > Ubuntu formatted the WD on the primary strap. It is hda. Ubuntu did
> > > NOT format either of the other two drives. The master on the
> > > secondary strap is still formatted NTFS. So is the Maxtor. I want
> > > EVERYTHING formatted Linux, in whatever fashion you guys think is
> > > best.
> > > 
> > > How can I do that?
> > 
> > I presume that you're running Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 (rather than Kubuntu
> > or Xubuntu). And I presume that you've already got anything that you
> > wanted off the two NTFS drives. :-)
> > 
> > I'm very partial to GParted. A very good tool much like Partition
> > Magic under Windows that you might want to have in your bag of tricks.
> > 
> > Go here to download the CD ISO image (0.3.7.7):
> > <http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php>
> > 
> > Reboot with it in place and use it to delete the partitions on the two
> > NTFS drives and replace them with whatever you're using for Ubuntu,
> > which is probably ext3 (the default).
> > 
> > HTH...and welcome aboard.
> > -- 
> 
> Since the two remaining drives are separate disks,
> 
> sudo apt-get install gparted
> 
> will install gparted which can then be run from within your installed distro.
> 
> Make sure you format hdb and hdc, not hda!!!
> Paul
>