swappo1
December 6th, 2009, 09:49 PM
Hello,
I have Debian 5.0 installed and I want to set up to dual boot with Ubuntu 9.10. I'm not sure how to partition my drive. Here is what I have for partitions:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 Debian 6.5 GB ext 3
/dev/sda5 swap 9.3 GB
/dev/sda6 14GB ext3
Free space 217GB
Using the livecd and custom partion screen, I created two new partitions with the free space for / and /home but then it said free space wasn't usable even though I had plenty of free space so I undid the partitions. When I created the two new partitions, I just added them. I don't know if this was the right way to do it. How do I set up Ubuntu with 5-10 GB partition and a home partition with 10 GB and dual boot with Debian? I still want to keep a lot of free space. Thanks.
I have Debian 5.0 installed and I want to set up to dual boot with Ubuntu 9.10. I'm not sure how to partition my drive. Here is what I have for partitions:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 Debian 6.5 GB ext 3
/dev/sda5 swap 9.3 GB
/dev/sda6 14GB ext3
Free space 217GB
Using the livecd and custom partion screen, I created two new partitions with the free space for / and /home but then it said free space wasn't usable even though I had plenty of free space so I undid the partitions. When I created the two new partitions, I just added them. I don't know if this was the right way to do it. How do I set up Ubuntu with 5-10 GB partition and a home partition with 10 GB and dual boot with Debian? I still want to keep a lot of free space. Thanks.