Hello Ubuntuonians,
So i finally decided to check out Ubuntu, but not 100% committing [yet?] as i'm a gamer as well.
I spent countless hours the last 2 days trying to install and probably don't even remember all of the things i did.
I don't like registering at forums just to ask questions and am kind of a "let me fix it myself" person, but seriously i'm at the end of the do it without asking for help route.
From this point i really hope somebody here can take me to my goal of properly running Ubuntu Studio next to Windows 10.
Here's what we're working with [a pretty old machine and probably unusual combo]:
- Phenom 2 X4 955 BE, 8GB DDR 3 Ram, HD7870
- 1 x 500GB internal HDD [sda]
- 2 NTFS partitions --> Win10 & it's stuff
- 1 x 1TB external HDD [sdb ---> 3 partitions in total]
- 1 NTFS partition BIG
- 1 swap disk/drive(?) partition 16GB
- 1 Ubuntu partition 200GB
Current state:
After not being able to install the bootloader no matter how often i tried different locations for install etc, i decided to "continue without a bootloader and install manually"
I thought i actually came pretty far with it, basically looking at that "Configuring grub-pc" screen in the terminal - however there is no device to select to install to.. just an <Ok> symbol which i dont even know how to "click".
And i think here is where the bigger problems begin:
When opening gparted, all the symbols [path, folders, files] related to sdb [my ubuntu install] will disappear from the desktop, gparted will show only sda related partitions.
Closing down gparted, all the sdb related stuff re-appears on my desktop!
When selecting "install Ubuntu Studio" from the Live DVD and choosing "something else", i can clearly see that Ubuntu is installed on sdb as per my requirements, back in "try Ubuntu without installing" [because no bootloader for the sdb install], the issues as described above re-occur..
Thank you for reading and possibly giving me an idea on how to proceed.
Also, let me know if you need any more info, i read a lot about fstab being requested etc [mine looks pretty empty]