Lost WUsin Ubuntu 11.10; completed one that will not upload

[Agencyman]

You need to re-install Linux, and don't accept the default install (either one of them). Select "advanced mode", and delete the Linux partitions you are now using for folding. Select make a new partition, and be sure to move off from the default ext4 file system, to ext3, before you select the next partition. Swap partition can be left with it's default file system (which is neither ext3 or ext4).

As soon as this 6903 finishes, I re-install and give it a go!

Thanks

[Agencyman]

Converted to the -oneunit config, still took 1h02m to finish whatever it was doing before uploading the finished WU, which went well, and fast, this ISP gives me 6M upload speed so the server never waits.

Before you read this and comment, realize I don't understand the "move off of the ext4 before changing..."

OK, I wiped out the whole drive, tried to do a custom instal, but it claimed to not have a root something-or-other, and I could find no way with the partition manager that is part of 'install' to add one.

So I just let it do a complete default install with the latest 11.10 x 64 .iso.

Now I have the live disk version running and can use Gparted to change the .ext4 things. Am I on the right track?

Should I try an install on top of the new one? Details in next post from the HDD now.

I know, noob, noob, noob!
Bruce

[Agencyman]

Gparted, looking from the live disc O.S., shows this about the 74 Gb Raptor HDD:

dev/sda1 ext4 45Gb with 3.8 used, and the boot flag
dev/sda2 extended 24Gb
/dev/sda5 linux-swap 24Gb

[ChelseaOilman]

So I just let it do a complete default install with the latest 11.10 x 64 .iso.

A fresh install was the correct thing to do but you can't go with the default or you end up with the ext4 file system.

I'm a linux noob, this page helped me to figure out how to change to the ext3 file system before you start the install.
http://musky.dyndns.info:8088/ubuntu/

[Agencyman]

Chelsea,

That worked, I had to get the free space first to put the ext3 partition into, that way it didn't complain about the 'root ?' details

Thanks for stopping by, new build in progress.

Bruce

[Agencyman]

BTW, I took it for granted that the ext3 was the preferred file format for folding... why???

I had seen it before, don't remember where, but seemed like a small group consensus.

I'll do another -bigadv and see what happens at the finish.

Bruce H.

[Agencyman]

Went through fast and easy.

This one's closed, solved and gift-wrapped for the annals.

Bruce