TexMachina
February 27th, 2009, 08:57 PM
OK, I have a work laptop with XP and I wanted to use the remaining 20GB of unpartitioned space for an Ubuntu install. Problem is the installation's partitioner just wants to either re-size my existing partition or flatten the whole machine. It sees the unused space, but I see no way of forcing it to use the unused space.
To get around this I manually created the ext2 partition and a swap partition before restarting my install. Now the install wants to re-size ALL of the partitions. How do I run the 8.10 desktop installation without it touching my very important, work related, could get into a world of **** if it is corrupted NTFS partition?
God I hate it when computer programs are idiot proofed to the point of uselessness like this.
To get around this I manually created the ext2 partition and a swap partition before restarting my install. Now the install wants to re-size ALL of the partitions. How do I run the 8.10 desktop installation without it touching my very important, work related, could get into a world of **** if it is corrupted NTFS partition?
God I hate it when computer programs are idiot proofed to the point of uselessness like this.