Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[logan01]

the click button does a check mark for formatting. I did it for the / partition and now it says swap and / are going to be formatted and this will destroy all data on any partitions you have removed as well as on the partitions that are going to be formatted. if you continue, the changes will be written to the disks. otherwise, you will be able to make further changes manually. I reckon I need to check the format button along side the other ext4 partition which is the home partition, then install, right?

[elijathegold]

If it's definitely your / directory, then format it; it should just overwrite the files if you don't but I have carried out a (re-)install without formatting.

[Qqmike]

You may miss home in the list because you have to work the scroll bar on the right side of that list, some entries are at the top of the list and often are not visible until scrolling up. Anyway, you got home now.

You must have clicked the "fomat" box and put a check mark in them (for sda8 ext4). No need to do that because you already did it before.

Anyway, let's get a move on here ... If it INSISTS you re-format root and home as ext4, let it do it. It won't be the end of the world, we hope, but that's why I use GParted to do all this work, not the installer partitioner.

Philosophy aside ... if you must re-format the two ext4's, no problem go ahead.

[logan01]

crap. I clicked install and now this: the file system on /dev/sda8 assigned to / has not been marked for formatting. Directories containing systems files (/etc, /lib, /usr, /var, ...) that already exist under any defined mountpoint will be deleted during the install. Please ensure you have backed up any critical data before installing.

I then have the choice of clicking continue or go back. sda8 is my /root partition. the window i'm doing all this in does have a format column with a clickable button for each /dev/sda.

[logan01]

ok. I missed something. They are now all assigned so to speak. Now clicking install now again.

[logan01]

Didn't you do this before, on your first attempt to install?

I did. I reckon that's why i see them though they didn't say root, swap, home.

sda7 now says swap in the Type column
sda8 now says ext4 and has the root symbol in the mount point column (almost on the imaginary line separating Type/Mount Point columns.
sda9 says ext4 in the Type column but has nothing else and there is no "home" to choose when I click change.

[logan01]

the choices for change are:
ext4 journaling file system
ext3 journaling file system
btrfs journaling file system
jfs journaling file system
xfs journaling file system
fat16 file system
fat32 file system
swap area
reserved bios boot area
efi boot partition
physical volume for encryption
do not use this partition..
Nothing mentioning home.

[logan01]

getting closer. selected the swap partition and selected "swap area" for the "use as". selected another (sda8) which i know is my root and selected "ext4 journaling file system" and it gave it the root symbol (/).

I now have the home partition but it doesn't say "home" when i go to change it there is no "home". Doesn't it also get the "ext4 journaling file system" designator. The other choices don't ring a bell. C'mon, we're getting close.

[Qqmike]

Didn't you do this before, on your first attempt to install?

[Qqmike]

yes "use as" ...
/ (root)
home
swap

you only need those.

[Qqmike]

yes, highlight each one -- one at a time, then for the currently highlighted partition hit Change and set it up (as /, home, or swap No need to reformat anything except it MAY insist that it reformats Swap--if so, that's OK, let it format the Swap again.

[logan01]

got out of change. i do see each partition I created. do I highlight each of the 3 partitions, select change and .......?

[logan01]

ok, got a drop down menu with several options. do you need all their names? these are listed under "use as". I also have "format the partition" and "mount point".

[Qqmike]

change

[logan01]

do i click "change" the only options turned on are change, delete, undo all changes. turned off are add, new partition table.