Grub install failed.

[kpmwrestler]

on the other computer did you partition the hard drive, or did you just let it do what it wants?


the best way to go is to just let ubuntu install everything automatically.

 

[zmatt]

If i did that it would over write my windows partition. That isn't an option.

 

[kpmwrestler]

nah, ubuntu is too smart. sorry, i didnt mean completely automatically, but here's how easy it is:

start gparted from the parted magic live cd, and remove all partitions you made, except keep the windows partition. then "resize/move" the windows partition so there is like 10-15gb free space (thats plenty, but you can have more)

so now you have like 10-15gb of "unpartitioned" disk space. leave it like that.

now install kubuntu and whe it asks you about partitioning select "guided-use free space"

it should install and you are done.

 

[zmatt]

thats not the problem. the problem is grub isn't installing to the mbr. forget the partitions i know how to do that. grub will not cooperate.

but I've got another one for you. i installed kubuntu on my laptop. 1.6ghz celeron 1 gig of ddr2 80 gig hard drive. it runs incredibly slow. takes 10 minutes for apt-get to run. riddle me that one.