NEW PC with Windows7 Pro - trying to install Ubuntu15.10

Set the space on sda as / and the space in sdb use 9Gb for swap and the rest for /home formatted Ext4

Thank you Andrew - I am still learning.

I think I understand that.

I have not got pass "Installation Type" so far.

I will have another look at it tomorrow.

Thanks again

Richard

Sorry did not get much farther:-

So I selected "Do something Else" Selected the Free space on sda 66598mb in Installation Type, then press +

In new window "Create Partition" it said size 66599 -+MB

? Do I select in Type for this new partition

? Primary
? Logical
? Being of this space
? End of this space

Use as Ext4 (Journaling file system)
Mount point ?

I still get a message that I have not set up a "Swap Space"

I think I need a lot more help ..... Please .... step by step would be very helpful.

Richard

How much memory do you have? You should create a swap file with about the same size.

I recommend that you create two additional partitions on sda, one for data and one for the swap file.
something like:

sda3, 60000 MB, ext4 for /
sda4, the rest, swap

Thank you Manfred, I have 8GB of ram as stated in my question.

So I create 2 partitions on my SSD sda3 & sda4 that I understand.

But not sure about the rest:-

So I selected "Do something Else" Selected the Free space on sda 66598mb in Installation Type, then press +

In new window "Create Partition" it said size 66599 -+MB

? Do I select in Type for this new partition

? Primary <<<<<<<<<<<<
? Logical or <<<<<<<<<<
? Being of this space ...were do I start
? End of this space

Use as Ext4 (Journaling file system)
Mount point ?

Sorry, that I overlooked the information about your RAM size and asked again.

66599-8192=58407

I do not have an empty hard disk at hand, so I cannot really test it myself, but I assume the steps should be:
do something else
select free space
press +
New window create partition:
size 58400 MB (use +/- buttons or type the number)
Primary
Beginning of free space
Use as ext4
mount point /
OK

Then do the same again
select free space
press +
New window create partition:
size should be 8200 MB (or whatever it shows, try using the maximum)
Primary
Use as swap area
OK

Thank you Manfred, I still have a problem.

I have set 2 extra partitions

/dev/sda1 ntfs 104mb 25mb
/dev/sda2 ntfs 53329mb 40913mb
/dev/sda3 ext4 / 58400mb unknown
/dev/sda4 ext4 /swap 8197mb unknown

/dev/sd4 ext4 I set this /swap (manually) but it said that I had not selected any partitions for use as swap space ?

The only options are as follows:-

/
/boot
/home
/tmp
/usr
/var
/srv
/opt
/usr/local

/dev/sda4 should not be ext4 but swap (you will not get the field for the mount point then)

Thanks again Manfred, I will give it a go tomorrow.

Richard

So do I just put in sda4 the following:-

/dev/sda4 swap

?

And for sdb1 is for Windows Data and sdb2 will be for /home for Linux

/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 ntfs
/dev/sdb2 ext4 /home

Is this correct ?

Thanks for any help.

Richard

Sounds correct.

/dev/sda1 ntfs 104mb 25mb
/dev/sda2 ntfs 53329mb 40913mb
/dev/sda3 ext4 58400mb 5182mb Ubuntu 15.10
/dev/sda5 ext4 swap 13268mb unknown (Note sda5)

/dev/sdb1 ntfs 80674mb 92mb
/dev/sdb2 ext4 419431mb 6821mb

Also note that have lost Window7 PRO.

The ssd is still there sda1 and sda2 where Windows should be, but can't boot into Windows, I am not given a choice, boots straight into Ubuntu 15.10.

I have had looked at boot listing but unable to boot from sda1

Any help please?

Richard

"/dev/sda5 ext4 swap 13268mb unknown (Note sda5)"
looks strange to me. It can either be formatted as ext4 or as swap. and it should not be listed as "unknown".

I recommend run the bootinfo script to show the current status of the bits and pieces related to booting.

Thank Manfred,

How do I get this information " bootinfo"

Step by step please.

Richard

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Boot-Info

Thank you Manfred for Help.

I have solved the problem not seeing Windows.

The reason that I did not see the start up options where there was options to choose Ubuntu, Advance options for Ubuntu, Memory Test and Windows.

Was because my new Acer K242HQK 4K monitor was cycling through it's start up routine for input options HDMI, DV1 DISPLAYPORT and by the time it had done this, the default started Ubuntu as this was the first option on the list.

I will look at the sda5 on ssd and perhaps reinstall the OS again.

richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
udev 4015780 0 4015780 0% /dev
tmpfs 806628 9592 797036 2% /run
/dev/sda3 51128972 4722148 43786512 10% /
tmpfs 4033128 156 4032972 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 4033128 0 4033128 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb2 403029660 98700 382434580 1% /home
cgmfs 100 0 100 0% /run/cgmanager/fs
tmpfs 806628 44 806584 1% /run/user/1000
richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$

For the swap question:

What is the output of

swapon --summary
free
cat /etc/fstab
ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid

richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$ swapon --summary
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/sda5 partition 12957692 0 -1
richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$ free
             total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 8066256 1965232 6101024 372808 36848 1077536
-/+ buffers/cache: 850848 7215408
Swap: 12957692 0 12957692
richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$ cat /etc/fstab
# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid' to print the universally unique identifier for a
# device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name devices
# that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
# / was on /dev/sda3 during installation
UUID=70ac6c90-ccf1-4e57-8d4f-beafbdd23b0d / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sdb2 during installation
UUID=10ed14f1-ae80-4017-849e-e94c2e510081 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=638fed9b-133f-4943-ad7f-ecc52e2584d6 none swap sw 0 0
richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$ ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 10ed14f1-ae80-4017-849e-e94c2e510081 -> ../../sdb2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 638fed9b-133f-4943-ad7f-ecc52e2584d6 -> ../../sda5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 70ac6c90-ccf1-4e57-8d4f-beafbdd23b0d -> ../../sda3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 749875FB9875BBE4 -> ../../sdb1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 8AA62C62A62C50CD -> ../../sda2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 Dec 17 12:58 8AE611C9E611B683 -> ../../sda1
richard@richard-H81M-S2H:~$

I do not see any problem.
/dev/sda5 is enabled as swap and correctly defined in /etc/fstab. Due to the fact that you have enough RAM, the swap area is not used at this moment, but it is available for use in case that this will become necessary,

Maybe you should consider increasing the time limit for the selection on the initial boot screen to allow the monitor enough time to detect the input source.

Thanks Manfred,

How do I change the time limit on the initial boot screen please.

Richard

Have just received Linux Format January 2016 LXF206 with a good tutorial on " Set your Partitions" which I am now reading!

How to change the time limit for the grub menu:

Issue the command

sudo gedit /etc/default/grub

This will ask for your password as confirmation for an administrative task and then open an editor with the grub configuration file loaded.

1. You have to add and/or remove the hash signs ('#') at the beginning of the lines that you have

...
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTION=...
...

2. You can set a shorter/longer timeout by modifying the number at "GRUB_TIMEOUT=" (time in seconds). (Don't change anything else in that file.)

After the modification(s) save the file and close the editor.
Finally issue the command

sudo update-grub

Thank you again Manfred.

All up and running correctly including Get_iPlayer

Got this error -

sudo update-grub
Generating grub configuration file ...
Warning: Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value when GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT is set is no longer supported.

So changed GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

To GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=20

This gave me more time.

Richard

If you receive the "Setting GRUB_TIMEOUT to a non-zero value ..." warning, then you did not fully follow my instructions. Probably they were not clear enough.

I assume you did not put a hash sign in front of the line #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0

I recommended to set it to

...
GRUB_DEFAULT=0
#GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true
GRUB_TIMEOUT=10
GRUB_DISTRIBUTION=...
...

(Note, that there is a hash sign in front of #GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=0, but in none of the other lines in that block).

But if the behaviour is already what you want, you can just leave it as you have it now.