[SOLVED] No settings or data to import???

[buccaneere]

That's the message - "There were no users or operating systems suitable for importing from."

During the previous step, all OS's WERE identified (XP, FC10, 8.04).

Did I incorrectly assign the new root partition? (and it found no settings/user data THERE?)

[oz]

That's the message - "There were no users or operating systems suitable for importing from."

During the previous step, all OS's WERE identified (XP, FC10, 8.04).

Did I incorrectly assign the new root partition? (and it found no settings/user data THERE?)

I'm not really understanding what you are trying to do. There shouldn't be any settings or user data for root unless you've been logging in as root user and Ubuntu uses sudo rather than root.

Can you explain with more detail what you are trying to do?

[reed9]

I'm guessing he did a new install of Ubuntu, which offers you, if I recall, the opportunity to import settings from another operating system on the machine, or the previously operating system, and it failed.

He had XP, Fedora 10, and Ubuntu 8.04 on there and the question, as I understand it, is did he overwrite the old partitions, and that is the reason the installer couldn't find any data to import.

I have never used the import settings feature of any distro, so I don't really know the answer.

I would post the output of

sudo fdisk -l

so we can see your layout.

[buccaneere]

I'm guessing he did a new install of Ubuntu, which offers you, if I recall, the opportunity to import settings from another operating system on the machine, or the previously operating system, and it failed.

He had XP, Fedora 10, and Ubuntu 8.04 on there and the question, as I understand it, is did he overwrite the old partitions, and that is the reason the installer couldn't find any data to import.

I have never used the import settings feature of any distro, so I don't really know the answer.

I would post the output of

sudo fdisk -l

so we can see your layout.

Correct, except I KNEW that no 'writing' had occurred yet.

Problem was, the 9.10 64 bit version CANNOT see earlier versions and users' data, when skipping versions (8.04 to 9.10 (skip 8.10, 9.04) ), AND, when changing architecture versions (32 bit to 64 bit).

Thread solved, I suppose.

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