Peter108
October 3rd, 2009, 11:44 PM
Howdy.
I tried to install UNR 9.04 onto my Samsung N110 netbook using a bootable flash drive I created. What's cool about the N110 is that it ships with a 160GB HDD already partioned: 6GB for recovery, ~75GB for XP, and ~75GB just waiting to have UNR installed on it.
The install went smoothly, with the partitions showing up in the installer as described above. So I chose automatic partitioning and finished my install. Only when a subsequent download blew up for lack of disk space did I notice that the installer had created a tiny 2.4 GB partition and installed UNR onto that, not the full 75GB partition.
So now if I rerun the installer and reach the part where it "prepares disk space" I see:
Windows Vista (loader) /dev/sda1 6GB
Windows XP /dev/sda2 70.0GB
(/dev/sda3)[my desired target partition] 70.5GB
Ubuntu 9.04 /dev/sda5 2.3GB
swap /dev/sda6 172.5 MB
If I continue, I'm told that Ubuntu will install on /dev/sda7 and 8, so I abort. If I simply boot up the installed version of UNR, both the XP partition and /dev/sda3 are recognized and readable.
Can anyone tell what might be happening here and how to fix it? I'm not a total noob, but I'm not keen on the idea of manual partitioning, either. Thoughts?
Many thanks.
I tried to install UNR 9.04 onto my Samsung N110 netbook using a bootable flash drive I created. What's cool about the N110 is that it ships with a 160GB HDD already partioned: 6GB for recovery, ~75GB for XP, and ~75GB just waiting to have UNR installed on it.
The install went smoothly, with the partitions showing up in the installer as described above. So I chose automatic partitioning and finished my install. Only when a subsequent download blew up for lack of disk space did I notice that the installer had created a tiny 2.4 GB partition and installed UNR onto that, not the full 75GB partition.
So now if I rerun the installer and reach the part where it "prepares disk space" I see:
Windows Vista (loader) /dev/sda1 6GB
Windows XP /dev/sda2 70.0GB
(/dev/sda3)[my desired target partition] 70.5GB
Ubuntu 9.04 /dev/sda5 2.3GB
swap /dev/sda6 172.5 MB
If I continue, I'm told that Ubuntu will install on /dev/sda7 and 8, so I abort. If I simply boot up the installed version of UNR, both the XP partition and /dev/sda3 are recognized and readable.
Can anyone tell what might be happening here and how to fix it? I'm not a total noob, but I'm not keen on the idea of manual partitioning, either. Thoughts?
Many thanks.