leandromartinez98
June 15th, 2011, 06:44 PM
My brother is trying to install 11.04 in his new eeepc netbook. The partitioning of this netbook is strange, and it comes with four
partitions, sda1 (169gb), sda2(128gb), sda3(19gb), sda4(30mb).
He wants to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, and we had never any issue doing that. This time, however, there was no "alongside" option in the installer, only "install inside windows", "erase windows" and "advanced" options. Apparently this results from this four partition arrangement, I'm not sure. The "inside" option simply didn't work, it went into windows and did nothing.
I will be meeting him and then installing Ubuntu for him there, because I more or less know about partitioning, but I would like to know more technically why there is no "alongside" option in this case.
I think the 169gb partition has the windows installation and the 128gb partition is empty. The third is a recovery partition and the fourth I don't know.
Anyone know why there is no "alongside" option in the installer here?
Is the better choice to manage the partitions within windows and then proceed to Ubuntu installation in some way that the "alongside" option appear, or work on the partitions directly from the Ubuntu installer? Any advice is appreciated.
partitions, sda1 (169gb), sda2(128gb), sda3(19gb), sda4(30mb).
He wants to install Ubuntu alongside Windows, and we had never any issue doing that. This time, however, there was no "alongside" option in the installer, only "install inside windows", "erase windows" and "advanced" options. Apparently this results from this four partition arrangement, I'm not sure. The "inside" option simply didn't work, it went into windows and did nothing.
I will be meeting him and then installing Ubuntu for him there, because I more or less know about partitioning, but I would like to know more technically why there is no "alongside" option in this case.
I think the 169gb partition has the windows installation and the 128gb partition is empty. The third is a recovery partition and the fourth I don't know.
Anyone know why there is no "alongside" option in the installer here?
Is the better choice to manage the partitions within windows and then proceed to Ubuntu installation in some way that the "alongside" option appear, or work on the partitions directly from the Ubuntu installer? Any advice is appreciated.