I haven't used the Xubuntu installer (yet, ask me tomorrow), but I'm pretty sure it'd be the same: Select "manually edit partition table" when the installer prompts you to and just click through the first screen (the partitioner). On the next screen, you'll be prompted to select mount points. On 6/5/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Pete Daniels wrote: > > >> So do I run Ubuntu from the Desktop CD, open a terminal window and type > >> "gparted" on the command line? Or do I have to download gparted > >> separately (gparted live CD?). Will it be tricky to understand how to > >> use that -- I haven't used gparted before. > > > > Gparted is included in the CD, system > administration >gnome partition > > editor. It's dead simple, if you know your way around a partition list, > > it shouldn't give you any problems. > > > I'm installing Xubuntu on an older machine for practice. It's not dual > boot -- I'm just putting Xubuntu alone on one HDD. > > I get how to use gparted, and I partitioned the drive in a simple way > using the gparted live CD. > > The problem comes when I'm doing the installation of Xubuntu. I imagine > the installer is the same as for Ubuntu. I turn off the screen saver and > proceed with installation. When I get up to the stage where it wants to > partition the disk, I see know option for skipping that stage. If I try > to accept the defaults, it hangs. > > Mike > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060605/84659b86/attachment.htm