Cereus
August 29th, 2009, 02:25 PM
Hello,
I have just purchased a Toshiba laptop (Satellite L300D) with Vista installed and I want to make a dual boot. I've done this before with other systems but there is something beyond my experience happening here.
With the Vista installation I have four partitions (factory fresh, there is uncertainty what each partition contains from my readings online). Note, I burned my DVD recovery disks already.
1 - 1.46 GB (EISA Config)
2 - 7.57 GB (Primary Partition, not mounted and empty)
3 - 7.71 GB (Primary Partition, mounted as D: and empty)
4 - ~210 GB (System, boot, Page File, Active, Crash dump, Primary Partition, mounted as C:)
In the Vista partition manager I took this last large partition and split it. Now it is 150 GB and ~60 GB shows up as unallocated.
So far so good, I've read that the Ubuntu installer will identify this free space and use it for the installation.
However, when I boot from the Ubuntu DVD and go through setup, in the partition manager I only have two options. The partitioner identifies all the partitions (and it calls the 7.6 GB partition the Vista (loader) and also the 150 GB as Vista (loader)).
My two options are:
1) Automatic in which Ubuntu uses the entire disk and deletes the Vista partitions
2) Manual - but it calls the 60 GB unallocated space as unsuable
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I have just purchased a Toshiba laptop (Satellite L300D) with Vista installed and I want to make a dual boot. I've done this before with other systems but there is something beyond my experience happening here.
With the Vista installation I have four partitions (factory fresh, there is uncertainty what each partition contains from my readings online). Note, I burned my DVD recovery disks already.
1 - 1.46 GB (EISA Config)
2 - 7.57 GB (Primary Partition, not mounted and empty)
3 - 7.71 GB (Primary Partition, mounted as D: and empty)
4 - ~210 GB (System, boot, Page File, Active, Crash dump, Primary Partition, mounted as C:)
In the Vista partition manager I took this last large partition and split it. Now it is 150 GB and ~60 GB shows up as unallocated.
So far so good, I've read that the Ubuntu installer will identify this free space and use it for the installation.
However, when I boot from the Ubuntu DVD and go through setup, in the partition manager I only have two options. The partitioner identifies all the partitions (and it calls the 7.6 GB partition the Vista (loader) and also the 150 GB as Vista (loader)).
My two options are:
1) Automatic in which Ubuntu uses the entire disk and deletes the Vista partitions
2) Manual - but it calls the 60 GB unallocated space as unsuable
Any help would be greatly appreciated.