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[Tom <question76237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #76237 on nautilus in ubuntu changed:
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/76237

    Status: Open => Answered

Tom proposed the following answer:
Still in the LiveCd session?

Top left-hand corner of the desktop has an "install" icon.  When you get
to the Partitioning section choose the lowest of the 3 options "Manual
Partitioning".  It give a scary moment while it re-scans your drives and
then shows almost exactly the same as gparted (which doesn't need to be
open by now) notice the difference in colour-coding tho <sigh deeply>
<shakes head> Anyway, make sure that the only partitions that are ticked
in the "Format?" column are the 2 ext3 ones and the linux-swap.  Even
they don't really need to be reformatted but it is essential the Windows
ones don't get formatted or else you could lose all that data!  Now the
first ext3 should be sda3, 10Gb(ish), set it's "Mount point" to "/" also
might be called "Root", set the other one, the logical ext3 one,
probably called sda6, set it's "Mount Point" to "/home".

A couple of steps later you should get to a summary of what the
installer will do and it's worth checking that sda1 and sda2 are going
to be left well alone!  Then let the installer do it's own thing for
about 30mins-1hour and then you should be all good to boot into a very
robust and reliable system :)

Good luck and regards from
Tom :)

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