| === Gary_ is now known as Guest40327 | ||
| === Guest40327 is now known as A4_322 | ||
| A4_322 | hi, I seem to be having a problem with disk partitioning | 01:04 |
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| A4_322 | I installed Ubuntu Studio, but when I booted Windows 7, it said it couldn't use the empty disk space because the partion was in the wrong style... GPT I think it was | 01:05 |
| A4_322 | so I did it over again, and put Windows on first | 01:05 |
| A4_322 | but... linux couldn't find the windows partition, it treated it like an unpartitioned disk | 01:06 |
| A4_322 | Any advice? | 01:06 |
| holstein | ey A4_322 | 01:08 |
| A4_322 | ? | 01:08 |
| holstein | hey* | 01:08 |
| A4_322 | hi, can you help me with this? | 01:08 |
| * holstein looking | 01:09 | |
| holstein | SO... | 01:09 |
| holstein | you had win 7 installed | 01:09 |
| holstein | you installed buntu | 01:09 |
| holstein | and what? | 01:09 |
| A4_322 | ubuntu didn't find the windows partition | 01:09 |
| holstein | when? | 01:09 |
| holstein | during the install? | 01:09 |
| A4_322 | when I was telling it where to install it to, yeah | 01:09 |
| holstein | is that a problem? | 01:10 |
| holstein | ubuntu didnt give you a grub entry for win? | 01:10 |
| A4_322 | well... yeah. If I re-write the partition table, windows (and my other partitions dissapear) | 01:10 |
| A4_322 | and no, it didn't | 01:10 |
| A4_322 | oh, be right back | 01:10 |
| holstein | A4_322: i would boot a live CD | 01:11 |
| holstein | and look at the partitions in gparted | 01:11 |
| holstein | maybe use that live installer | 01:12 |
| holstein | seems to be a little more friendly | 01:12 |
| holstein | you can make that install ubuntustudio | 01:12 |
| holstein | !vanilla | 01:12 |
| ubottu | To install Ubuntu Studio on top of a vanilla Ubuntu install, read https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuStudio/Installation | 01:12 |
| holstein | ubuntu = ubuntustudio | 01:12 |
| A4_322 | hmm.. does ubuntu studio have a live install? | 01:12 |
| holstein | no | 01:13 |
| A4_322 | oh... sorry | 01:13 |
| A4_322 | I didn't realize what "vanilla" meant | 01:13 |
| holstein | only the alternate style installer | 01:13 |
| holstein | yeah, you can just add whatever you want to the normal vanilla one | 01:13 |
| A4_322 | okay | 01:13 |
| holstein | *assuming* this help you get your issue resovled | 01:13 |
| holstein | i would make sure i have all my data in place | 01:14 |
| A4_322 | ok, thanks for your help, I'll try it | 01:14 |
| holstein | and images made if needed | 01:14 |
| holstein | maybe with clonezilla or something | 01:14 |
| A4_322 | this is a brand new PC | 01:14 |
| holstein | ive never been all that worried about losing a windows partition though ;) | 01:14 |
| A4_322 | I literally have nothing to lose | 01:14 |
| holstein | AH | 01:14 |
| holstein | good | 01:14 |
| holstein | did it come with a CD ? | 01:14 |
| holstein | a restore disc? | 01:15 |
| A4_322 | no, it's a custom build | 01:15 |
| holstein | cool | 01:15 |
| holstein | so you just have a win 7 disc then | 01:15 |
| A4_322 | I'd like to install Windows XP, Windows 7, and Ubuntu studio on it | 01:15 |
| A4_322 | I have a disc of each | 01:15 |
| holstein | you'll sort it out then | 01:15 |
| A4_322 | I hope so =) | 01:15 |
| holstein | it gets hairy when you need to preserve a backup partition | 01:15 |
| holstein | from a vendor | 01:15 |
| holstein | nah | 01:15 |
| holstein | you can totally bork that | 01:16 |
| A4_322 | bork? | 01:16 |
| holstein | and your just out the time you spent | 01:16 |
| holstein | bork = screw it all up | 01:16 |
| A4_322 | yeah... I already screwed it up twice | 01:16 |
| holstein | you want to do the win installs first | 01:16 |
| A4_322 | but no harm done... reformat the hard drive and start again | 01:16 |
| holstein | and i would leave the space for ubuntu | 01:16 |
| A4_322 | I already installed ubuntu studio, should I take it off (for the third time argh) | 01:17 |
| holstein | however, buntu will resize | 01:17 |
| holstein | A4_322: i would get a plain old ubuntu live CD | 01:17 |
| holstein | or a gparted live disc | 01:17 |
| A4_322 | ok | 01:17 |
| A4_322 | so... start over | 01:17 |
| A4_322 | alright | 01:17 |
| holstein | i like http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ | 01:17 |
| A4_322 | sounds like a good idea... the best I have anyway | 01:18 |
| holstein | and just get a look at whats going on first | 01:18 |
| holstein | you might not have to start over | 01:18 |
| holstein | depends | 01:18 |
| holstein | A4_322: what are the formatting options with the win7 install? | 01:18 |
| holstein | is there something different or newer than ntfs going on? | 01:18 |
| holstein | that im unaware of | 01:18 |
| A4_322 | I'm pretty sure it's NTFS | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | yeah | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | it's NTFS | 01:19 |
| holstein | hmmm | 01:19 |
| holstein | buntu should be seeing it... | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | it doesn't | 01:19 |
| holstein | well, the live CD should mount it | 01:19 |
| ailo | so, it's not exfat? | 01:19 |
| holstein | that would be a good trouble-shooting step i suppose | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | I'll try the live cd, if it doesn't work, I'll come back... | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | time to eat for now | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | thanks for your help! | 01:19 |
| A4_322 | bye for now | 01:20 |
| holstein | well, come back and thanks us when your rockin and rollin :) | 01:20 |
| A4_322 | sure :) | 01:20 |
| holstein | good luck | 01:20 |
| A4_322 | thanks, all's gone well so far | 01:20 |
| A4_322 | except the OS | 01:20 |
| A4_322 | bye then | 01:20 |
| ailo | Don't know much about windows 7, but from what I've understood it supports exFAT | 01:22 |
| holstein | ailo: can we mount that? | 01:23 |
| ailo | According to wikipedia, leopard only just added support for it, but linux hasn't yet | 01:23 |
| holstein | :/ | 01:24 |
| holstein | that could be the deal | 01:24 |
| holstein | if its the default setting in the installer | 01:24 |
| holstein | maybe what we just talked about will make A4_322 aware | 01:24 |
| holstein | and choose NTFS | 01:25 |
| ailo | Well, maybe he will figure it out next time around.. | 01:25 |
| === ubott2 is now known as ubottu | ||
| ailo | holstein: about testing ubuntustudio, any tips? | 01:31 |
| holstein | i recently got lucid, maverick and natty on a laptop with firewire | 01:32 |
| holstein | so i can test my firewire card | 01:32 |
| holstein | i use the PPA purge function in ubuntu tweak | 01:33 |
| holstein | i really havent even had a chance to add abogani's kernel PPA's for natty though | 01:33 |
| holstein | ailo: what are you interested in testing? | 01:33 |
| ailo | I'm about to install natty on 32 bits and 64 bits. So far only on Virtualbox | 01:34 |
| ailo | I use pci and built in cards with nvidia graphics | 01:34 |
| holstein | i think you can learn alot from virtual installs | 01:35 |
| holstein | i wanted the bare metal for the kernels and the firewire | 01:35 |
| holstein | might be nice to test those newer kernels with your nvidia hardware | 01:36 |
| holstein | not a deal breaker though | 01:36 |
| holstein | do what you feel comfortalbe with | 01:36 |
| ailo | I just used Virtualbox to get the feel for it. Can't do any 3d or low latency sound. | 01:36 |
| holstein | i have a somewhat spare machine | 01:36 |
| holstein | 64bit lappy | 01:36 |
| ailo | But what about some sort of test suites? | 01:37 |
| ailo | I've been trying to find out what is out there, but it seems there's not much out there | 01:38 |
| holstein | you mean like a package? | 01:38 |
| ailo | or a script | 01:38 |
| holstein | like ubuntu-studio-test-blah | 01:38 |
| holstein | hmmm | 01:38 |
| holstein | i dont know of a script or a package | 01:39 |
| holstein | i think so much of the performance depends on the hardware too | 01:39 |
| holstein | its challenging, but not impossible to have such a thing | 01:39 |
| ailo | I suppose a lot has to do with the kernel itself, how well it works with your hardware | 01:40 |
| holstein | i know abogani would appreciate testing his natty kernels | 01:42 |
| ailo | I think it would be interesting to compare results from different hardware. | 01:42 |
| holstein | even in VM i suppose | 01:42 |
| holstein | ailo: it would have to be a stupid simple script | 01:42 |
| holstein | and we'd have to have somewhere to collect it | 01:43 |
| holstein | ailo: are you on the mailing list? | 01:43 |
| ailo | yes | 01:43 |
| holstein | if you think about it, mail that around | 01:43 |
| holstein | and mention maybe a way to add the results easily | 01:43 |
| holstein | somewhere on the new site | 01:44 |
| holstein | OR a link from the site to a wiki page that we could easily set up | 01:44 |
| ailo | I did mail something about kernel testing on both ubuntustudio-dev and lau. Seems like it is not an easy task to test a kernel | 01:44 |
| holstein | wiki's can be a pain though | 01:44 |
| ailo | wiki's seem to get easily bloated and disorganized | 01:45 |
| === JesusFreak316_ is now known as JesusFreak316 | ||
| ryjyd | hello hello, anyone got eyes on the room? | 08:08 |
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