Installing Ubuntu, Help w/ Partition
Edit: Problem solved, thanks anyways guys.
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What are you using your different partitions for? What's the fat16 for? Where's Vista? Are you using your last partition (sda3)? Help us help you :)
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I didn't even know I had any partitions! I'm so lost please help me out.
EDIT: ok I think that the one on the bottom is my main hard drive cuz it looks like it has 300 gigs. So I want to install onto that hard drive, but I want to partition off the part that Vista is already occupying. |
Open a console and issue this command: cat /etc/fstab. Fstab lists devices (in this case, hard drives and partition numbers), their mount points, and the filesystem type. That should give a better of what is installed where.
I suspect the partition /dev/sda3 will be the place to install Ubuntu. It it turns out to be so, you would be better off using windows tools to resize /dev/sda3 to create free space at the end of /dev/sda3. Then boot the Ubuntu cd, and use Ubuntu to select the free space and create your swap partition, and your Linux partition to install Ubuntu into. |
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ cat /etc/fstab
unionfs / unionfs rw 0 0 tmpfs /tmp tmpfs nosuid,nodev 0 0 ^um???^ Also, what is/ how do I creat a swap partition or Linux partition? For that matter how do I even select the free space?? |
To edit partitions in xp, use Control Panel -> Administrator Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Manager or Partition Magic (third-party).
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