How to make partition for ubuntu 5.10
 

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I am newbie ubuntu,and I try to make partition for ubuntu.I had tried to use Gparted,but it din'nt display anything for that.Can anyone help me about that?
thanks

Hi Jack. Could you give some more details please. Does your HD already have another OS installed on it or is it totally empty. If empty, has it been formatted in another format , ie FAT32 / NTFS etc. GParted is usually quite straightforward to use. Have you a linux distro already installed or are you booting up with the Ubuntu CD and then getting the option to format your HD / make a linux partition ? From previous experience if you are completely new to Linux it is best to install on a clean HD with no other partitions as opposed to messing around with partition managers. I'm sure others would also recommend that you try to install a newer version of Ubuntu. I found installing 6.06 even more straightforward than Win 3.11 ;)

Uncle C

The Linux installer will take care of making partitions--as long as there is empty space on the disk.

When you say that Gparted "didn't display anything for that", what do you mean? Did it recognize the disk and show you the partitions already there?

If you want Ubuntu, why not something more recent--eg 6.06 or 6.10?

OK,i try to let you what i do it.1st i try to format the HD,inside is no any OS,is totally empty,then I start to install the ubuntu 5.10,then b4 installation,we can make partition for it right?
so i try to make it.then after that start to make the installation.After every things done.So i try to go to My Computer there and check,but I just found it only got 1 filesystem.and the another partition i created was found inside filesystem/home.

Then now my problem is how to show the partition in 2 in My Computer, same like when we insatall window XP will show out C drive and D drive 2 partition like that.

Thanks

I think you are saying that you have Ubuntu working and cannot see one of the partitions???

Please open a terminal and do "sudo fdisk -l" and post the results here.

If i understand you correctly, then you're expecting to see you're second partition as a separate drive in "My Computer"

Linux mounted file systems are not the same as Windows file systems, and thus don't act or look the same. Linux does not see it's available mount points as drives designated with a leter like C or D

everything sits inside of root AKA "/"

additional partitions would mount within this file structure. for example if you have an additional partition for home directories it would mount in /home.

take a look at /etc/fstab on your system, this should define what is mounted where. running the command "mount" will also print out all mounted filesystems on the machine

--dan