Hi everybody. I am trying to instal Ubuntu 11.10 32bit in my Dell Inspiron N5010. I already have Windows 7 instaled in it. So the problem i am having is about the partition I am going to install Ubuntu. The thing is, i already have 3 primary partition. The first is an 100 Mb OEM Partition (i read in some forums that it is a partition for Dell software), a 16 GB Recovery Partition (witch i shrunk by 5 GB that now is not allocated so that i could install swap on it) and a 283 GB Windows OS (wich i shrunk by 20 GB that now is not allocated so that i could install ubuntu root in it). The thing is, when i start Linux installation and select one off the two unallocated partitions either for linux root or for swap, the other one become usulless and I cant do nothing with it. I googled it and i found out that there can only be 4 primary partitions and as i already have 3 i can only make one more, or for linux root, or for swap. The answer i arrived for my problem is that i have to format or OEM partition or Recovery partition. My question is wich of those two partition i should format and why. Is there another way to do this installation? For what do i use the Swap Linux Partition? Sorry for the big text and thanks for your help
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