[SOLVED] loading ubuntu with mint and vista

Jesse W · 10-12-2009, 09:39 PM

hay i currently have vista (soon to be win7) and mint 7 on my laptop. i normally use mint, and vista just when needed. i also plan on putting on ubuntu and use it tom learn, without worrying about loosing data.
i have made a 60gb partition, is that large enough? and also putting it on will i need to do anything different then when i put mint with vista? seen as mint is my default os . . .

Jesse W · 10-12-2009, 10:40 PM

sorry need to take a giant steep back here. i had resized my other partitions, but when i tried to make a new one it came up saying that you can not have more then four . . . at the moment i have a toshiba system volume, vista, mint and HDDrecovery. anyone have any ideas how to get around this limit of four?
or should i start new thread/ edit this one .. .

yancek · 10-12-2009, 11:24 PM

You can only have four primary partitions. I'm not sure what your system volume is and if it's different from recovery partition and if so what problems you would have if you deleted one? You could delete the Mint partition and create an extended partition in which you can install Linux distributions like Mint and/or Ubuntu.

Jesse W · 10-13-2009, 05:56 PM

im not sure what it is ether. . . i think ill shrink the vista, the make a larger one for linux

yancek · 10-13-2009, 08:06 PM

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You could delete the Mint partition and create an extended partition in which you can install Linux distributions like Mint and/or Ubuntu.

That's not quite right. You create the extended partition and then create logical partitions within the extended just to be clear.

akakingess · 10-14-2009, 10:04 PM

also, in an ideal world you would have a root or / partition for mint and then a seperate /home partition in case you needed to do a reinstall it wouldn't touch your documents, etc. However, I don't know if you will be able to do that given your current config. I know on my personal laptop and desktop, I got rid of the "Recovery" partition for Windows by doing a wipe off and complete new install, but don't know if you feel comfortable doing that.