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    Dell D620 and Ubuntu

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by Books, Oct 4, 2006.

  1. Books

    Books Newbie

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    Here's the deal. I go to College, so my Windows XP install is perfect (for now).

    I wanted to add Ubuntu and dualboot. I gave it a shot last night, but it turns out I have an extra partition (which turned out to be the EISA config - 47mb). The problem is, I don't want to reinstall Windows and Ubuntu would not allow more than 4 partitions.

    So i need to have 4 partitions in total:

    Memory Swap
    Data Sharing
    Windows
    Linux

    What can I do, any help appreciated.
     
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  2. wearetheborg

    wearetheborg Notebook Virtuoso

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    This belongs in the linux section. If I got u'r question right - u currenty have 2 primary partitions on u'r laptop, and u need 3 more (swap,linux,data sharing).
    Create a primary partition for linux say /boot or just /
    Create a secondary partition (allocates no space).
    Within that scondary partition u can create many logical partitions - use those for swap and fat32 data transfer.
    http://wiki.motin.eu/HowToComfortablySwitchFromWindowsToUbuntu
     
    wearetheborg, Oct 4, 2006
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