Re: [Sheflug] change of distro

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

robert fallis wrote:
> changed my distro now
> have Ubuntu 6.06 running, didn't go to 7.04 it seamed to buggy, couldn't  
> get
> the live disk to run.but I've mucked up the partioning, and only have  
> ubuntu not ubuntu and Suse as I wanted,
> I have a large partion hda3 which is owned by root so can't put my backed  
> up files into it,
> if anyone knows how to do this it would be a help, if not I'll read the  
> book
> 
> bob
Bob

Sorry to hear things seem to have fallen apart at partition stage.
Can you cut and paste the contents of /etc/fstab?

And would you also be able to do the following (need to be root) :

1. run 'fdisk /dev/hda'
2. enter the letter 'p'
3. exit fdisk by entering 'q'
4. copying the results here.

5. run the command 'df -h'
6. Copy the results here.


You also might want to read

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

which talks about the different directories that occur under a Linux distro.

It is not possible to say why you can't add your original data files to 
the new system.  There isn't enough info here to determine where the 
problem is and it depends whether. by root directory, you mean '/' or 
'/root' .

If you've put one large partition on as the root directory '/' then
you should have no problem having a '/home' directory.

It just simply won't be in a separate partition.

Regards

L.


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