TheHarbinger
March 24th, 2009, 02:31 AM
I've installed XP SP3 on my laptop's hard drive, and used the disk manager to make multiple partitions with the goal of multi-booting XP, Ubuntu, and a Hackintosh install. I've made 20 GB available each for Ubuntu and Hackintosh, and there's a small (10GB) FAT32 DOS partition available to all OSes as a common file swap partition. The rest of the disk is an NTFS logical drive for XP.
I went to install Ubuntu, and got into disk partitioning. I pointed the partitioner to one of the 20 GB partitions, and told it to use that partition as the \ mount point. I then got a dire message saying that I hadn't named a swap partition and this would cause problems.
Can't I simply install Ubuntu to that partition and have it subdivide the partition as it needs to, using part of it for a swap drive? Or will I have to re-do my entire disk partitioning scheme for an additional swap partition?
I went to install Ubuntu, and got into disk partitioning. I pointed the partitioner to one of the 20 GB partitions, and told it to use that partition as the \ mount point. I then got a dire message saying that I hadn't named a swap partition and this would cause problems.
Can't I simply install Ubuntu to that partition and have it subdivide the partition as it needs to, using part of it for a swap drive? Or will I have to re-do my entire disk partitioning scheme for an additional swap partition?