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linux4all2010-12-09 12:16 am
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Trying to install Ubuntu alongside Windows XP
I've got an 80GB hard drive on this machine. One partition's Windows, one is Linux swap space left from before I reinstalled Windows, one is mostly just there, and I want to install Ubuntu on the fourth. Trouble is, every time I try, my choices are install on the whole disk and install on the whole disk. Except for the time I tried with a flash drive in; I now have a 16GB flash drive with a 10GB partition Windows recognizes and a 6GB partition from which I can boot Ubuntu.
I don't want to install on the whole 80GB disk. There's a reason I reinstalled Windows. I also don't want to boot from a USB anything, because every time I try to boot Ubuntu I have to glare at the 'This is not a bootable disk' message until I remember I need to disconnect the external hard drive before the computer thinks to check the flash drive.
What do I do?
I don't want to install on the whole 80GB disk. There's a reason I reinstalled Windows. I also don't want to boot from a USB anything, because every time I try to boot Ubuntu I have to glare at the 'This is not a bootable disk' message until I remember I need to disconnect the external hard drive before the computer thinks to check the flash drive.
What do I do?
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Does that help?
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Still, if you can get to the manual partitions part then that's a good start. What you'll probably want to do is to choose that, then select the partition you want to install to (you said you have a swap partition, a 'just there' partition, and a fourth partition that you want to use, right? choose the fourth partition), choose 'Change', and then set its type to ext4 and its Mount Point to '/'. That identifies it as the root partition.
(In this case I'm using the guide at http://netgator.blogspot.com/2010/10/ubuntu-1010-installation-guide-and.html as a reference point. If your installer doesn't look like that, and/or if selecting specify partitions manually doesn't get you to a screen like this, then I'd probably need to know what Ubuntu version and media you're using for your install...)
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AND LO AND BEHOLD IT IS WORKING. Thank you!
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