[00:05] <lukjad007> DWonderly I'd say about 40 minutes ago ;)
[00:07] <DWonderly> lol lukjad007
[00:08] <lukjad007> :D
[00:09]  * DWonderly needs to sit down and learn doc stuff
[01:21] <dhillon-v10> starcraftman: hi how are you
[01:22] <starcraftman> I go well, been doing some java and watched a movie today :)
[01:23] <dhillon-v10> ah I am really good at Java and also I am taking it at school
[01:25] <dhillon-v10> hey I need to ask you: what would you look for in a display manager guide
[01:26] <starcraftman> hmmm, I dunno, if its a graphical guide I usually include some screenshots. At least a few for illustration.
[01:49] <dhillon-v10> identify vikram123
[08:35] <terry> Is anybody there?
[08:37] <Madpilot> sort of
[08:39] <terry> I 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] <Madpilot> sda means it's a SATA device
[08:39] <Madpilot> for a regular HDD
[08:40] <Madpilot> usb keys and such are also sd*
[08:40] <terry> SATA is not the same as an IDE disk is it?
[08:40] <Madpilot> no - IDE/ATA is the old wide ribbon cables, SATA is the newer standard with narrow cables
[08:41] <terry> That's not what I have.
[08:41] <Madpilot> almost all modern HDDs are SATA
[08:41] <Madpilot> hmm
[08:41] <terry> This is an older Maxtor 40GB disk.
[08:41] <Madpilot> now that you mention it, I think Linux is now reporting all drives as sd*, even IDE stuff. don't quote me, though
[08:42] <terry> The Ubuntu 9.04 installation documentation still indicates that sda refers to the 1st SCSI disk, and hda refers to the 1st IDE disk.
[08:43] <Madpilot> that might be out of date
[08:44] <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 recall
[08:45] <terry> I 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] <Madpilot> probably best to ask in #ubuntu for that
[08:46] <terry> Abd how do I do that?
[08:46] <Madpilot> I'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] <Madpilot> sorry, lose the / in front of #ubuntu
[08:46] <Madpilot> "/join #ubuntu"
[08:48] <terry> Thanks
[17:30] <dhillon-v10> hi rocket