Help Me Enjoy [Install] Kubuntu Please

[Qqmike]

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Well, I'm still here, in the live session, with Firefox ... posting this ...

[Qqmike]

True. So if I do the manual partitioning, it will not put "along side Windows"? What happens? How do I get GParted if it won't download/install to my F: drive (usb)?

You can install Kubuntu alongside Windows using the Manual method because you are going to force the partitioning to be that way (when you do the partitioning, either with GParted or in the installation session--as your last link shows). Remember, you can use GParted from a live Kubuntu session from the live Kubuntu installer USB BEFORE you select Install (i.e., before you click Install, you will click Try Kubuntu and get a live session--like what I am in right now). In your live session you can install GParted (as explained above in one of my posts) and use it from there. When done, you click on Install Kubuntu and go at it, selecting the Manual method and there seeing and using the 3 partitions you just created in GParted.

[logan01]

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[Qqmike]

I'm using and posting now from the live Kubuntu 14.04 USB session. Think I'll get re-booted back into my HDD-installed K 14.04 ...

[logan01]

I think it depends on when you quit, I don't know. I mean, if it has downloaded all its files and started installing and configuring, you wouldn't want to Quit that, right?

True. So if I do the manual partitioning, it will not put "along side Windows"? What happens? How do I get GParted if it won't download/install to my F: drive (usb)?

[Qqmike]

Maybe better to start fresh tomorrow, especially as you may try the partitioning (either w/GParted or with the live installer as shown on that last link you posted).

[Qqmike]

When quitting, it hasn't dumped part of the OS to my computer has it?

I think it depends on when you quit, I don't know. I mean, if it has downloaded all its files and started installing and configuring, you wouldn't want to Quit that, right?

[Qqmike]

OK, results of my test:

I have been (all along) using a live Kubuntu USB from this iso:
kubuntu-14.04.2-desktop-amd64.iso

Now, I am using a live Kubuntu USB from this iso:
kubuntu-14.04.3-desktop-amd64.iso

Both give me the same screenshot you posted in Post #40, saying I could install Kubuntu alongside Windows. But I am not given that option on the Installation Type page with either the 14.04.2 or the14.04.3. The closest thing to it is the Manual optionon both 14.04.3 and 14.04.3If this is true (and I think it is), it's not good for new people trying to install Kubuntu alongside their Windows.

[logan01]

I'm wiped out. I think in a tad I'll try the install knowing I can quit at any time.
When quitting, it hasn't dumped part of the OS to my computer has it?

[Qqmike]

Those last two posts; WHAT??

I didn't say anything. You hear anything?

[Qqmike]

This is sweet. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/35676/how-to-choose-a-partition-scheme-for-your-linux-pc/

If I select install on my kubuntu live usb, shouldn't it offer this manual method of partitioning and then I can follow the example (link)?

The link: that's exactly what we are talking about under the Manual method (except all the partitions will already be set up ahead of time by GParted).

Yes, it should work. As I said (somewhere above) you CAN try this (even though I said that some of us FEEL we don't want to trust the partitioning to the installer partitioner). Many people, I'm sure, DO do it that way. So, yes, you can give it a try. It will most probably work without a catch. Many ways to go--true for most things in Linux, there usually isn't just one single best way, there are usually many opinions.

[logan01]

Those last two posts; WHAT??

[logan01]

This is sweet. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/35676/how-to-choose-a-partition-scheme-for-your-linux-pc/

If I select install on my kubuntu live usb, shouldn't it offer this manual method of partitioning and then I can follow the example (link)? Or I can download GParted.tonight and start up again tomorrow.

[Qqmike]

In fact, I just did this using dd to make the live Kubuntu USB we are talking about (the newer version):

mike@mike-desktop:~$ sudo dd if=/home/mike/Downloads/kubuntu-[COLOR=#0000ff][B]14.04.3[/B][/COLOR]-desktop-amd64.iso of=/dev/sdb bs=16M
[sudo] password for mike: 
65+1 records in
65+1 records out
1101889536 bytes (1.1 GB) copied, 153.836 s, 7.2 MB/s

[Qqmike]

Can I cut/paste it to my usb and it should work?

No. A basic copy will not work (it doesn't pick up all the partitioning and such that is needed on a live flash drive). You need to use dd! Just so happens, ...
https://www.kubuntuforums.net/showth...712#post378712
and it works for the gparted iso (I know because I experimented with this, tried it, helped confirm a bug, the bug was fixed ...)