new partition help

[natman]

Hello,
I am planing on installing Kubuntu 11.04 on my laptop ( currently win 7 ). I want to have separate partitions for / and /home and a shared fat32 partition that both win and linux can read/write.

When i go to install using the manual option i get the partition table as follows:
sda 1 ntfs size(208 ) used (69)
sda 2 ntfs size(474389 ) used (51776)
sda 3 ntfs size(25399 ) used (21683)
sda 4 fat32 size(108 ) used (33)

Now i know the big partition is the main win one, and the rest are recovery partitions and other crap that was pre installed on the machine ( hp ). So how do i go about making a new table with / , /home and shared fat32 - i want to split up sda2. The options are "new partition table","add","change" and "delete".

thanks:

[Hedgehog1]

You have a limitation that you can only have 4 primary partitions on an MBR partitioned disk. Windows requires an MBR partitioned disk, so I usually suggest something like this:


When all four primary partitions are taken (the HP install)

First how it looks in Windows:
http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/9104/hp4partitions01.png
What it looks like in gparted off the LiveCD:
http://img859.imageshack.us/img859/8806/hp4partitions02.png
Right click on sda3 and select 'Delete':
http://img856.imageshack.us/img856/2164/hp4partitions03.png
Press the 'check' mark button to really make the change:
http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/1732/hp4partitions04.png
Right Click, on empty area, select new and create extended sda3 (Press that check mark button again...):
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/5967/hp4partitions05.png
Create your sda5 Ubuntu partition, leave a little room for swap later (Format this ext4 - and press that check mark button again.):
http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/4839/hp4partitions06.png
Create sda6 and make it swap space:
http://img855.imageshack.us/img855/3999/hp4partitions07.png
Press the check mark button again

[Hedgehog1]

You are ready to install Ubuntu:
http://img864.imageshack.us/img864/2449/hp4partitions08d.png
Select this during the install:
http://img705.imageshack.us/img705/2588/hp4partitions09.png
And you will get to here:
http://img849.imageshack.us/img849/9937/hp4partitions10.png
We will add some extra data to sda5 and sda6. With sda5 highlighted, press the [CHANGE] button:
http://img861.imageshack.us/img861/5274/hp4partitions11.png
These settings prepare the partition to be exdt4, '/'.
Repeat the steps for the swap area (This usually set itself up OK) :
http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/4934/hp4partitions12.png
You are ready to install. Press [Install Now].
http://img857.imageshack.us/img857/6342/hp4partitions13.png
This is what the drive looks like in the 'Disk Utility' in Ubuntu after the load is complete:
http://img852.imageshack.us/img852/3987/hp4partitions14.png

The Hedge

:KS