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tinman47
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How do I partition my disk to put Ubuntu on my COMP? |
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Pancake
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| Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 6:49 pm
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| tinman47 wrote: | Question:
How do I partition my disk to put Ubuntu on my COMP? |
Actually, I really want to find this out too. I used Partition Magic, a Windows partitioning program and apparently Ubuntu doesn't like it.  |
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tinman47
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| All I know is that your suppose to do it off the Ubuntu CD |
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GAMER
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Wait...
You post a "How to..." and you don't know...how to...?
Speaking of partitions. Tell me. My friend bought a new puter. It had Vista. He removed it and put on winxp. Apparently, says he, when he installed windows, puter was partitioned into 3. Why would that happen?
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dosraider
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 12:18 am
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| GAMER wrote: | .... puter was partitioned into 3. Why would that happen?
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Possibilities:
1 primairy for system, 2 and 3 for data?
1 primairy for system, 1 for data, 1 hidden one for recovery?
and so on ....
| GAMER wrote: | | It had Vista. He removed it |
If it was partitioned under VISTA he find those partitions back when he installed XP. You need to delete those partitions, formatting will not remove those. On the other hand, having a -(smaller)- C: for system files and a -(large)- D: for data is the key to keep your system clean and fast.
tinman47&hyde : http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php
And hyde: works with PartMag 8.05, but you must know what you do. If you're a beginner (we all been there) you really better use the install/partition prog that's on the CD.
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wardrich
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| tinman47 wrote: | Question:
How do I partition my disk to put Ubuntu on my COMP? |
qparted or gparted |
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dosraider
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 5:25 am
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| hyde` wrote: | | I used Partition Magic, a Windows partitioning program and apparently Ubuntu doesn't like it. |
As said already a post or two up, PM works, but I always run it from a bootCD, can make a difference maybe.
If you absolutely want to use PM is stead of the UBU program for partitioning, this is how it should look:
Keep in mind, a swapspace is allocated, but NOT formated !!! |
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wardrich
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:27 am
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| Ubuntu should come with either QParted or GParted. Use that to format. |
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franpa
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hehe to remove partitions under winXP, just run the disk management tool and right click on the other partitions and choose delete  of course this does not let you adjust the windows partition because windows is in use -.- thus if you wish to extend your windows partition you will need some third party tool. |
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dosraider
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Moved from Game Creation to General Off-Topic, belongs there, nothing to see with Game Creation. Splitted from Tinman47's 'get Linux' topic.
BTW: nothing's wrong with the posting, just a small clean up.*
*Read: I just love messing with threads  -Larry |
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Larry Laffer
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| franpa wrote: | | hehe to remove partitions under winXP, just run the disk management tool and right click on the other partitions and choose delete of course this does not let you adjust the windows partition because windows is in use -.- thus if you wish to extend your windows partition you will need some third party tool. |
Yeah, but if you plan ahead, you can choose the right partitioning when you install XP. I for one never needed to modify a partition AFTER I installed XP!  |
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dosraider
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| Larry the Laffer wrote: | | *Read: I just love messing with threads -Larry |
*Read: in GO-T it's Larry's problem, not mine*
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Pancake
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| Posted: Thu Jul 19, 2007 8:54 am
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| dosraider: Thanks a lot for the help. I guess I'll stick with the Ubuntu partitioning program for now since I really don't know much about partitioning in the first place. |
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Joris
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This is the way I used to do it:
1) Use Partition Magic to resize the size of your Windows Partition
2) Select Apply
3) Reboot your computer with the Live CD in it
4) Click Install
5) When they ask stuff about the partitioning, select the option which means that it uses the largest free part of you HD. It will now automatically make partitions for Ubuntu and you don't have to do anything |
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wardrich
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I'll just put this question to an end.
I have no idea why people are telling you to waste the time with Partition Magic. Ubuntu comes with either qparted or gparted. That program will do everything you need from a pretty gui.
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My friend bought a new puter. It had Vista. He removed it and put on winxp. Apparently, says he, when he installed windows, puter was partitioned into 3. Why would that happen?
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Most brand-name computers come like this.
1. Windows
2. Data
3. Recovery partition
I'd just tell them to format it all, download XP, set the primary partition to like 20-40 gigs and then set the other partition to the rest of the drive, and use it for data. |
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