07-01-2014, 09:21 PM
Thanks for the welcome people.
N4RPS, I can understand how people might have problems, especially those who've never used anything but Windows before.
I thought I understood the guide ok, it seems easy enough to follow, some past experience installing Ubuntu helps, though I'd never tried to set up a dual boot until now.
I think my mistake was not following the troubleshooting link in the guide when the installer didn't offer the option to install alongside Windows, and not enough sleep at the time ;D
From memory I think I just checked the LVM option thinking that it sounded good & didn't see the Erase Disk button was set as well.
Whatever I did by the time I realised it was too late, even though it was only a few seconds until I tried to stop it
In the end I had to use the Something Else option & set the partitions manually as trying the other options all failed after this with an error but I can't remember what it said.
Installing from a USB I was, once I set the partitions manually all went well.
N4RPS, I can understand how people might have problems, especially those who've never used anything but Windows before.
I thought I understood the guide ok, it seems easy enough to follow, some past experience installing Ubuntu helps, though I'd never tried to set up a dual boot until now.
I think my mistake was not following the troubleshooting link in the guide when the installer didn't offer the option to install alongside Windows, and not enough sleep at the time ;D
From memory I think I just checked the LVM option thinking that it sounded good & didn't see the Erase Disk button was set as well.
Whatever I did by the time I realised it was too late, even though it was only a few seconds until I tried to stop it
In the end I had to use the Something Else option & set the partitions manually as trying the other options all failed after this with an error but I can't remember what it said.
Installing from a USB I was, once I set the partitions manually all went well.