mancocapac
February 29th, 2012, 06:35 PM
Hi All,
I am trying to do a new install of Ubuntu 11.10 on a clean 2TB drive.
Not really looking to do a dual boot, so I unplugged the WIN7 drive.
My box is an XPS 8300 i5
I am using the desktop cd. When I select something else option for partitioning my
disk is see
/dev/sda1
freespace
but when I select the freespace and hit ADD button I don't see any option for
primary or logical type. I see this option on every blog, help page, ... why
don't I get this?
I did a boot from disk and ran fdisk -ls and i get
/dev/sda 1 3907029167 1953514583+ ee GPT
I also tried Gparted, and only the Primary option is allowed, the others are
greyed out.
Ultimately, i would like to use one primary for ntfs
reserve two unformatted primarys and create an extended partition on the 4th.
in the extended partition have
logical /
logical /home
logical swap
any suggestions on why I am not getting the option to create an extended partition
would be great
Thanks
I am trying to do a new install of Ubuntu 11.10 on a clean 2TB drive.
Not really looking to do a dual boot, so I unplugged the WIN7 drive.
My box is an XPS 8300 i5
I am using the desktop cd. When I select something else option for partitioning my
disk is see
/dev/sda1
freespace
but when I select the freespace and hit ADD button I don't see any option for
primary or logical type. I see this option on every blog, help page, ... why
don't I get this?
I did a boot from disk and ran fdisk -ls and i get
/dev/sda 1 3907029167 1953514583+ ee GPT
I also tried Gparted, and only the Primary option is allowed, the others are
greyed out.
Ultimately, i would like to use one primary for ntfs
reserve two unformatted primarys and create an extended partition on the 4th.
in the extended partition have
logical /
logical /home
logical swap
any suggestions on why I am not getting the option to create an extended partition
would be great
Thanks