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lukjad007DWonderly I'd say about 40 minutes ago ;)00:05
DWonderlylol lukjad00700:07
lukjad007:D00:08
* DWonderly needs to sit down and learn doc stuff00:09
dhillon-v10starcraftman: hi how are you01:21
starcraftmanI go well, been doing some java and watched a movie today :)01:22
dhillon-v10ah I am really good at Java and also I am taking it at school01:23
dhillon-v10hey I need to ask you: what would you look for in a display manager guide01:25
starcraftmanhmmm, I dunno, if its a graphical guide I usually include some screenshots. At least a few for illustration.01:26
dhillon-v10identify vikram12301:49
terryIs anybody there?08:35
Madpilotsort of08:37
terryI am trying to install Ubuntu for the first time and when it come to scanning the disk it reports the disk as sda rather than hda?08:39
Madpilotsda means it's a SATA device08:39
Madpilotfor a regular HDD08:39
Madpilotusb keys and such are also sd*08:40
terrySATA is not the same as an IDE disk is it?08:40
Madpilotno - IDE/ATA is the old wide ribbon cables, SATA is the newer standard with narrow cables08:40
terryThat's not what I have.08:41
Madpilotalmost all modern HDDs are SATA08:41
Madpilothmm08:41
terryThis is an older Maxtor 40GB disk.08:41
Madpilotnow that you mention it, I think Linux is now reporting all drives as sd*, even IDE stuff. don't quote me, though08:41
terryThe Ubuntu 9.04 installation documentation still indicates that sda refers to the 1st SCSI disk, and hda refers to the 1st IDE disk.08:42
Madpilotthat might be out of date08:43
Madpilot"new "stuff" in Feisty called libata and this makes all IDE drives seen as sda" - from an old Ubuntuforums post I just found, and this jives with what I recall08:44
terryI guess I'll assume the install knows what it is doing and proceed with the installation. How do I get the "guided" partitioning so I can put /var, /home, ... on separate partitions?08:45
Madpilotprobably best to ask in #ubuntu for that08:45
terryAbd how do I do that?08:46
MadpilotI'm the wrong person to ask, as it's been over a year since I did a from-scratch install of Ubuntu - and that was onto an oddball LVM setup :)08:46
Madpilot"/join /#ubuntu" w/o the ""08:46
Madpilotsorry, lose the / in front of #ubuntu08:46
Madpilot"/join #ubuntu"08:46
terryThanks08:48
dhillon-v10hi rocket17:30
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