equiplist
May 8th, 2009, 05:06 PM
Hello All,
Thanks, in advance for reading, or replying to, this post.
I am using an Acer Laptop running on Windows Vista Home Premium. It has a 120 gb drive, but was only advertised as 100 gb. There is a 10 gb hidden partition with the Windows Vista factory image on it, and is further divided into 2 'disks' a C:\ drive and a D:\ drive. I have had to reload Windows Vista more than once, for various reasons. The C:\ drive gets formatted, but the data on the D:\ drive remains untouched.
Am new with Linux. I tried 'portable Ubuntu' but is was acting very buggy, so I tried Wubi as a Windows program. I liked it enough that I decided to go ahead with installing to the hard drive. The installation went fine. I was able to switch back and forth from Windows to Linux okay. And then I went to update Linux, and I received the error message 'not enough disk space'
When installing, I opted for the 'side by side with Windows' option. The install program selected 2.5 gb for the partition size, most of this is taken by the operating system. Leaves little or no room for much else. That's where things got sticky. In checking the options in Ubuntu, I don't see a way to alter the partition size. Going back to Windows in Disk Management, I can't do anything with the 2.5 gb Linux partition. I can't change the size. I can decrease the size of the C:\ or D:\ partitions, but afterwards I still can't change the size of the Linux partition.
Next, I went online searching for help. But all I could find were mentions of Wubi's uninstall, which is meant for when it is installed as a Windows program. Frustrated, I just removed the Linux partition. When I went to reboot, the Grub loader failed, just hung, I couldn't even get Windows to load. But the computer was still looking to boot off of the CD, and I still had the Ubuntu CD in it, which was loading okay, so I re-installed Linux.
This time I started to play with the installation partition settings. When I thought it was set the way I wanted, there was an error message about root directories. I felt I was in over my head. Did not want to take a chance of losing the Windows partition, having to re-install that as well. (I do have good backups of my data). So, I re-installed Linux again, with the same options as the previous time: 'side by side' with Windows, and no special partitioning instructions.
Previously, when I looked at the hard drive in Windows Disk Management, I saw a 180 mb partition, that had me scratching my head. Turns out it was a swap file for Linux/Windows. Now, there are 2 swap files showing.
Okay, apologies for the long write, but I was motivated, and wanted to get all the details correct. At this point, I guess I will have to re-install Windows, unless someone can provide me with an alternative. Also, I will need advice on how to properly set up the Linux partitions, so that I can have both systems available. With this small hard drive, as Windows is a space hog, I won't have a lot of space for Linux, but am hoping 10 gb should be sufficient.
All the best, Barry
Equipment Recyclers
Thanks, in advance for reading, or replying to, this post.
I am using an Acer Laptop running on Windows Vista Home Premium. It has a 120 gb drive, but was only advertised as 100 gb. There is a 10 gb hidden partition with the Windows Vista factory image on it, and is further divided into 2 'disks' a C:\ drive and a D:\ drive. I have had to reload Windows Vista more than once, for various reasons. The C:\ drive gets formatted, but the data on the D:\ drive remains untouched.
Am new with Linux. I tried 'portable Ubuntu' but is was acting very buggy, so I tried Wubi as a Windows program. I liked it enough that I decided to go ahead with installing to the hard drive. The installation went fine. I was able to switch back and forth from Windows to Linux okay. And then I went to update Linux, and I received the error message 'not enough disk space'
When installing, I opted for the 'side by side with Windows' option. The install program selected 2.5 gb for the partition size, most of this is taken by the operating system. Leaves little or no room for much else. That's where things got sticky. In checking the options in Ubuntu, I don't see a way to alter the partition size. Going back to Windows in Disk Management, I can't do anything with the 2.5 gb Linux partition. I can't change the size. I can decrease the size of the C:\ or D:\ partitions, but afterwards I still can't change the size of the Linux partition.
Next, I went online searching for help. But all I could find were mentions of Wubi's uninstall, which is meant for when it is installed as a Windows program. Frustrated, I just removed the Linux partition. When I went to reboot, the Grub loader failed, just hung, I couldn't even get Windows to load. But the computer was still looking to boot off of the CD, and I still had the Ubuntu CD in it, which was loading okay, so I re-installed Linux.
This time I started to play with the installation partition settings. When I thought it was set the way I wanted, there was an error message about root directories. I felt I was in over my head. Did not want to take a chance of losing the Windows partition, having to re-install that as well. (I do have good backups of my data). So, I re-installed Linux again, with the same options as the previous time: 'side by side' with Windows, and no special partitioning instructions.
Previously, when I looked at the hard drive in Windows Disk Management, I saw a 180 mb partition, that had me scratching my head. Turns out it was a swap file for Linux/Windows. Now, there are 2 swap files showing.
Okay, apologies for the long write, but I was motivated, and wanted to get all the details correct. At this point, I guess I will have to re-install Windows, unless someone can provide me with an alternative. Also, I will need advice on how to properly set up the Linux partitions, so that I can have both systems available. With this small hard drive, as Windows is a space hog, I won't have a lot of space for Linux, but am hoping 10 gb should be sufficient.
All the best, Barry
Equipment Recyclers