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Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
22:47
@iancarroll askubuntu.com/users/149868/ian-carroll
@IanCarroll
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Hey
@LuisAlvarado
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
Hi Ian
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Hey
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
ok can you explain the last part you mentioned in a comment.
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
When I boot into it, it's just showing the flash drive as an option to partition
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
23:00
and you have an HDD and the flash drive right?
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Yeah
I take it out until it boots into the USB though
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
did you open gparted to have a look?
you take what out?
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
The HDD
so it doesn't boot into the old sys
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
you can change that in the BIOS
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
I know
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
23:01
wait, sorry I forgot the original question, is it an external HDD then?
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
but it's a lot easier to have it default. I manually run the detect disks during the install
It's a hot swap rack server
so all of the HDD's are "external"
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
a ok ok got it
ok did you open gparted in the liveusb
and see what it showed?
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
What, in the extremely limited shell that's in RAM?
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
how much ram?
if you have 1GB or more, thats enough to open gparted
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
The shell that you can choose to run during the install
and it's got 8GB
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
23:03
no, I mean, when you boot the liveusb, am guessing you wait until it finishes loading onto the desktop right?
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
What desktop...
This is 12.10 Server
sorry if I'm a bit slow :)
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
yeah me too, just got home
let me read the question again wait
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
ok
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
ok weird, tested here and again it detected my drives. Can you access this time the F6 options
and also, are you using the alternative simpler server version of the normal server version that you can download from the site.
ubuntu.com/download/server/…
Thats the one I am using
If you can not see the F6 options then I would ask to give me 1 day to test out your problem without using the F6 keys.
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Ah, sorry, back
You saw it in the F6 menu?
I'll grab another keyboard
/afk :)
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
23:14
ok
I ask for the F6 option so you can remove the "splash" option and see what is going on while booting
That way you will see when it gives any error when loading the hard drive. BTW depending I tried connecting the drive after booting and is not detecting it
So at least in the server edition, you need to have the HDD connected from start.
Still, test it yourself first, the F6 option I mean.
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Allright
I've got the F6 menu up
What one would I press? expert mode?
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
press ESC and a command line should appear, tell me the last options shown in there
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Ok
boot:
When I press enter it brings back up the GUI
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
ok let's do something, my email [email protected]. Contact me tomorrow through there. I'll have a step by step guide by then.
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Ok
Cool
Thanks again!
Luis Alvarado
Luis Alvarado
23:26
No problem. Tomorrow then.
Ian Carroll
Ian Carroll
Allright, bye!

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