grifway
November 11th, 2010, 06:06 PM
Newbie to Ubuntu/Linux.
Have a fairly new desktop(HP) with one TB drive. It has Windows 7 Home Edition. The current hard drive has 3 primary partitions, 1 for boot/system, 1 for operating system(900GB) and 1 for the recovery disc.
So I thought I could install ubuntu on this disk in a partition.
Step 1. I used the shrink partition tool in windows and shrunk the OS 900gb partition to 700gb's.
Step2. I now have an 200GB portion of drive as unallocated.
So from here I thought I could partion this 200GB as an extended partition and within the extended create virtural partitions for the /, tmp, home, data directories.
But so far when I insert the ubuntu CD, and go to install, it does not see any of these new ext4 partitions.
What am I missing. Do I need to create a primary partion on this 200GB unallocated partition and work from there?
I don't want to install ubuntu as a program within windows.
Thank you. Not sure if I have all the terminology correct.
Have a fairly new desktop(HP) with one TB drive. It has Windows 7 Home Edition. The current hard drive has 3 primary partitions, 1 for boot/system, 1 for operating system(900GB) and 1 for the recovery disc.
So I thought I could install ubuntu on this disk in a partition.
Step 1. I used the shrink partition tool in windows and shrunk the OS 900gb partition to 700gb's.
Step2. I now have an 200GB portion of drive as unallocated.
So from here I thought I could partion this 200GB as an extended partition and within the extended create virtural partitions for the /, tmp, home, data directories.
But so far when I insert the ubuntu CD, and go to install, it does not see any of these new ext4 partitions.
What am I missing. Do I need to create a primary partion on this 200GB unallocated partition and work from there?
I don't want to install ubuntu as a program within windows.
Thank you. Not sure if I have all the terminology correct.