Iskalla
December 8th, 2009, 12:17 AM
I tried out Karmic Koala from live CD last night and was pretty blown away by how smoothly everything ran. I had no obscure errors or problems with drivers or codecs, and all my hardware worked fine, so I had high hopes for the installation and dual boot proccess. From what I have read, I understand I require a partition to boot from, a home partition and swap and root partitions. I created 70gb for home, 10gb for root, 500mb for boot and 4gb for swap using Windows Vista. I then went into installation and selected swap and ext3 file system during installation. The following screen bought up an error simply stating that it could not create an ext3 file system and simply took me back to the partition manager. Returning to Vista I had lost access to all these partitions, and was required to return to Ubuntu to format them back to ntfs, and this is where I am now.
If it would help I can try and retrieve specfic error messages, although I am hoping it is just a straightforward mistake on my behalf and lack of understanding of how Linux works. My last experience was dual booting XP and Knoppix years ago, and whilst Knoppix itself had some problems the installation was fine.
As a last resort should I consider a clean Ubuntu installation, overwriting windows and then creating a partition for vista and reinstalling from Ubuntu?
Thankyou!
If it would help I can try and retrieve specfic error messages, although I am hoping it is just a straightforward mistake on my behalf and lack of understanding of how Linux works. My last experience was dual booting XP and Knoppix years ago, and whilst Knoppix itself had some problems the installation was fine.
As a last resort should I consider a clean Ubuntu installation, overwriting windows and then creating a partition for vista and reinstalling from Ubuntu?
Thankyou!