

It seems to go well – until to the next installation step: I need to assign root and swap to the partitions. Live Disk as usual, I change the partition by hand. So how am I supposed to do an backup without the resources I can use in Germany?! I would have made one, but I was/am rather short of funds: It’s an old machine, Pentium III, floppy disk (thank god – nowadays many computers are shipped without, I myself sometimes consider it as lesser important), CD drive and a 10 gb hard disk drive.

Lesson learned, I won’t ever do that again. That’s why I didn’t made any precautions. This shouldn’t have been that difficult – I installed Ubuntu already a few times on different computers and have never experienced any problems. That day the internet in my room wasn’t working so I really had nothing to do and started right away to install Ubuntu. There was still Windows XP installed with files and data from the previous owner, but I wanted to install Ubuntu anyway. A few days ago, I got a computer from my host dad to avoid conflicts with my host brother about using his computer.
