[SOLVED] Winxp with 2 partitions + Ubuntu 10.4 = ?
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I just found out through Disk Management that my D: is already a logical drive (inside an extended partition of course). Do I need to take another route or do something about it?
No. That just makes things a little simpler.
Defragment D: using the tools inside Windows.
Then resize it smaller using the GUI partitioning program on any Linux liveCD (such as the Ubuntu install CD).
That leaves your "unpartitioned" space exactly where you want it, inside the existing extended partition.
The "unpartitioned" space can that be split into two or more additional logical partitions either manually in the GUI partitioning tool or automatically by the Linux installer, and used for / and swap and (if you don't follow my advice) any additional partitions you want for Linux subdirectories.
I'm not yet installing ubuntu by the way, I have to get my files backed up first. Thanks again.
Have you burned a Ubuntu install CD yet?
If so do you know how to get it to boot up in liveCD mode rather than installer mode? I'm not 100% sure of that myself. On many occasions booting a Ubuntu install CD, I've seen two levels (IsoLinux and later) at which you get that choice, but neither level is always there. Sometimes one or both gets skipped. But don't worry, you need to get fairly far into the Ubuntu installer before it can destroy anything. So if you get into the installer when you wanted liveCD mode, you can reboot.
At the moment right after the BIOS gives control to code loaded from the CD, pressing any key will get you into an IsoLinux menu (or sometimes a submenu of it that you can ESC out of). That lets you select the installer or the liveCD mode or some other choices and lets you customize the booting of any of the choices. I can use that myself without problems, but I'm not sure an ordinary user would recognize the moment during booting that the BIOS gives control to software on the CD.
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Originally Posted by thorkelljarl
Do you have a linux live-cd with which you can open a terminal and, with root privileges, execute the command "fdisk -l" and post?
johnsfine likes D, but you might verify that linux sees D as an extended partition it can use.
I don't disagree with a "look before you leap" approach.
Anyone answering you so far is making assumptions about the details of your partitioning based on what you say about C: and D:. But anything you might say about C: and D: is at best an indirect indication of what is in your partition table.
Posting the actual partition table (output from fdisk -l) would eliminate some possible bad advice based on bad assumptions about your current partitions).
To answer your questions, though I didn't burn the ISO into a CD, I have it on my flash disk. Before I first posted here, I was able to test Ubuntu on my pc without installing it.
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Originally Posted by thorkelljarl
Before you do anything irremittable...
Do you have a linux live-cd with which you can open a terminal and, with root privileges, execute the command "fdisk -l" and post?
johnsfine likes D, but you might verify that linux sees D as an extended partition it can use.
I'm at the office at the moment, I'll post the results from that command when I get home. While using Ubuntu, it was able to see my current partitions, C: and D:, though I don't know if that tells Ubuntu shows D: as an extended partition.
Sorry for only replying now, I'll post the "fdisk -l" results asap. Thanks again.
In case it is not clear, to you and to Ubuntu, the partitions you make in the space that you created from "D" are logical partitions. You are still within sda2, the extended partition.
The partitioning proposal that Ubuntu makes at the time of installation may not want to place Ubuntu where you want it. Look at the proposal carefully and remember that you can set Ubuntu partitions manually. Good Luck.
Last edited by thorkelljarl; 09-03-2010 at 06:34 AM.
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