arman_prof
May 25th, 2011, 09:38 PM
I'm web developer with fairly good tech knowledge.
First of all I'm new to this community, but I've used your forums for my problem researches very frequently and really appreciate the work all of you does. Thanks for the best linux community.
I've used to use Ubuntu 4 years ago, but it was immature for me at that time, so I've abandoned Ubundu Os and came back to it a 2 weeks ago.
I have Windows 7 already installed. Want to mention that Wubi is not for me, I want to dual boot without Wubi as I'm going to remove Windows 7 and reformat that partition in week or so.
I'm stuck at the window of selecting partition for installation of Ubuntu now. I had the same problem 2 week ago, but after some research I'd fixed it and installed Ubuntu. Today after some experimentation with source codes of software that I'm going to contribute to, I ran low on disk (some 700mb was left from 8 GB initial Ubuntu partition). After rebooting Ubuntu tried to update the packages and everything crashed. So I've deleted the old partition from live CD, added some more space partition from my Windows partition and again stuck the same window but can't recall what I did 2 weeks (linux/unix world is a little new for me, I've used to use simple things and commands to administer linux web servers).
my parted output:
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print device
Model: ATA Maxtor 6V160E0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 96.7GB 96.6GB primary ntfs
3 96.7GB 141GB 44.0GB primary ntfs
my fdisk -lu output:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3cbf3cbe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 206848 188950527 94371840 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 188950528 274829311 42939392 7 HPFS/NTFS
The first partition is Windows 7 (SYSTEM RESERVED partition). Maybe the proble is with it.
/dev/sda2 - Windows 7 partition
/dev/sda3 - my important files are here
I have also 18GB unallocated space at the end of partition for the Ubuntu and swap disk.
Here is screenshot where I'm stuck:
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/3277/screenshotfg.png
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
First of all I'm new to this community, but I've used your forums for my problem researches very frequently and really appreciate the work all of you does. Thanks for the best linux community.
I've used to use Ubuntu 4 years ago, but it was immature for me at that time, so I've abandoned Ubundu Os and came back to it a 2 weeks ago.
I have Windows 7 already installed. Want to mention that Wubi is not for me, I want to dual boot without Wubi as I'm going to remove Windows 7 and reformat that partition in week or so.
I'm stuck at the window of selecting partition for installation of Ubuntu now. I had the same problem 2 week ago, but after some research I'd fixed it and installed Ubuntu. Today after some experimentation with source codes of software that I'm going to contribute to, I ran low on disk (some 700mb was left from 8 GB initial Ubuntu partition). After rebooting Ubuntu tried to update the packages and everything crashed. So I've deleted the old partition from live CD, added some more space partition from my Windows partition and again stuck the same window but can't recall what I did 2 weeks (linux/unix world is a little new for me, I've used to use simple things and commands to administer linux web servers).
my parted output:
GNU Parted 2.3
Using /dev/sda
Welcome to GNU Parted! Type 'help' to view a list of commands.
(parted) print device
Model: ATA Maxtor 6V160E0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 160GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 1049kB 106MB 105MB primary ntfs boot
2 106MB 96.7GB 96.6GB primary ntfs
3 96.7GB 141GB 44.0GB primary ntfs
my fdisk -lu output:
Disk /dev/sda: 160.0 GB, 160041885696 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19457 cylinders, total 312581808 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x3cbf3cbe
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 2048 206847 102400 7 HPFS/NTFS
Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.
/dev/sda2 206848 188950527 94371840 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3 188950528 274829311 42939392 7 HPFS/NTFS
The first partition is Windows 7 (SYSTEM RESERVED partition). Maybe the proble is with it.
/dev/sda2 - Windows 7 partition
/dev/sda3 - my important files are here
I have also 18GB unallocated space at the end of partition for the Ubuntu and swap disk.
Here is screenshot where I'm stuck:
http://img593.imageshack.us/img593/3277/screenshotfg.png
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.