First post/Install Bug

Before I say anything interesting (never) let me introduce myself. Eddie Martinez. Posingaspopular. I like computers (Ubuntu rox), skateboarding, photography, Freedom, FL/OSS, reading (anything is fine by me), discussing politics with open minded people, movies, music (all genres), sports of all kinds and talking to people in general. My email is eddiemartinez@gmail.com and I don’t mind being contacted by non spammers at all.

Blog, Blago-Blag, Web-Blag etc. Here we go, post #1:

I don’t really know what to do with all this so I’ll just update whatenever anything remotely connected to Linux comes across my lap. I recently (2-11-07) reinstalled my Dapper Ubuntu (thanks to chris_) on my hard drive and the partioning was particularly tricky. Yesterday (2-12-03) I ran into a user at #ubuntu on IRC who was having the exact same problem as me. Note: I’m in there as much as possible, as well as #ubuntu-chicago and #imagi-nation. If I’m online, I’ll respond to ping from any of those rooms. Apparently, there is a bug where Edgy (and Dapper) will refuse to reuse an existing partion and claim ‘no root file system’. The bug report is https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity/+bug/67130
Does wordpress support HTML? I assume it does, but I don’t know how.

Terminal>root>fdisk>delete partitions (Windows partitions dont need to be deleted). Switch back to the installer and edit it again.

This is for MANUALLY editing a partition table at the installer. I have yet to understand

In particular, my / and swap both went to hda2 after reformating hda2. This is all IIRC though. Hopefully anyone who reads this will now know what to do in case they run across this problem while trying to help someone out. If I’m making myself unclear, or I posted something incorrectly, let me know.

YAY! End of my first blog. More soon if all goes well.

Best Wishes,

Eddie Martinez CC, NC