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berner5
May 7th, 2013, 02:26 AM
When I try to install ubuntu 13.04 off a live usb, I do not see the option to install alongside windows 8. The version of windows 8 I have is one I upgraded from windows 7, so it uses bios. I used to be able to install ubuntu 12.04 and 12.10 when I had windows 7 installed. When I upgraded form windows 7 to 8 I had an install of 12.10. If I remember correctly I wasn't sure exactly what to do to remove it and now I think there is probably some funky thing with my partitions that the installer doesn't like, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

voipster
May 7th, 2013, 05:22 AM
Have you tried installing 12.10 and going through the upgrade to 13.04?

berner5
May 7th, 2013, 11:16 PM
Have you tried installing 12.10 and going through the upgrade to 13.04?
I would, but when I've installed 12.10 in the past, I've had to install drive for both my ethernet and wireless card, so I would really like to try a different way. I think I tried 12.04 or 12.10 too and they didn't show the option to install alongside anyway.

oldfred
May 7th, 2013, 11:30 PM
Have you used all 4 primary partitions? Or did you create more than 4 with Windows and it converted to dynamic partitions?

Post this:
sudo parted /dev/sda unit s print

berner5
May 8th, 2013, 12:13 AM
Here is the output

Model: ATA TOSHIBA MQ01ABD0 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 1465149168s
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: msdos


Number Start End Size Type File system Flags
1 2048s 3074047s 3072000s primary ntfs boot, diag
2 3074048s 1425720554s 1422646507s primary ntfs
4 1425723329s 1437192191s 11468863s extended lba
5 1425723392s 1437192191s 11468800s logical
3 1437192192s 1465147391s 27955200s primary ntfs hidden

oldfred
May 8th, 2013, 12:58 AM
You seem to be showing a sda5 but it has no format?

You can either delete it so it is unallocated space & then the auto install should work. Or use Something else and manually create partitions.
Click change and use as ex4, check format, and mount as / (root). You should also have swap and perhaps a /home if you want.

berner5
May 8th, 2013, 01:36 AM
That was it, thank you.