MightyDingus
February 2nd, 2009, 03:32 AM
I have XP, Vista, and Windows 7 all installed and working on a 500gb laptop drive. I booted to the Ubuntu 8.1 live cd, used Gparted to format the remaining freespace (65gb) to ext3 so I can install Ubuntu to it.
When I go through the install, I get to the Prepare Partitions screen, it's blank, showing no drives, partitions, etc. Obviously, it's impossible to move forward from there.
I previously tried leaving the free space blank and unformatted, but the installer would only let me take free space from my Windows 7 partition (150gb), and wouldn't let me select the empty free space on the drive. After formatting the freespace, the partitioner doesn't show any drive info at all.
How do I get it to let me select the free space formatted to ext3 for the install?
Also, since I already have XP, Vista, and Windows 7 installed, will the grub loader simply add Ubuntu to them? I know it's this simple with dual booting XP/Vista/Windows7 with Ubuntu. I just want to make sure it's the same with Quad booting.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated to a Linux noob.
Thanks.
When I go through the install, I get to the Prepare Partitions screen, it's blank, showing no drives, partitions, etc. Obviously, it's impossible to move forward from there.
I previously tried leaving the free space blank and unformatted, but the installer would only let me take free space from my Windows 7 partition (150gb), and wouldn't let me select the empty free space on the drive. After formatting the freespace, the partitioner doesn't show any drive info at all.
How do I get it to let me select the free space formatted to ext3 for the install?
Also, since I already have XP, Vista, and Windows 7 installed, will the grub loader simply add Ubuntu to them? I know it's this simple with dual booting XP/Vista/Windows7 with Ubuntu. I just want to make sure it's the same with Quad booting.
Any help or suggestions will be greatly appreciated to a Linux noob.
Thanks.