cigtoxdoc
July 8th, 2013, 03:24 AM
I am in the process of converting my office from Win XP Pro SP3 to Ubuntu 12.04, but setting each machine for dual either by patitioning a single HD (or SSD) or using two HD. Everything went well until I tackled my DELL Vostro 3500 laptop (has Crucial SSD). After making copies of critical files, and an image of the Win XP partition, I used Gparted to set remaining 20 GB on the SSD to ext4. I then tried to use the LIve CD for 12.04 64-bit since Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 520 @ 2.40GHz is reportedly 64-bit. Neither of my CD-ROMS for 64-bit 12.04 would load far enough to do a live session (no error messages, just Ubuntu and dots). So I tried the 32-bit version. Based on prior installations, I expected Ubuntu to see the 20 GB of ext4 and make a good installation. That did not work as the install program wanted to chop the 20 GB into at least two sections (and sometimes more on installation I overwrote). Please see gparted screenshot attached.
Since I have not done much to this installation except call up the WiFi and nVidia proprietary drivers, I can go back and do a reintallation overwriting the current Ubunto installation. How do I get the reinstation to give me one 20GB contiguous space? I don't need a swap file as 4 GB RAM is more than enough to do most everything.
Long-term objective is to move files gradually from Win partition to Ubuntu partitiion, gradually decreasing size of Win and increasing size of Ubuntu.
Thank you,
John
Since I have not done much to this installation except call up the WiFi and nVidia proprietary drivers, I can go back and do a reintallation overwriting the current Ubunto installation. How do I get the reinstation to give me one 20GB contiguous space? I don't need a swap file as 4 GB RAM is more than enough to do most everything.
Long-term objective is to move files gradually from Win partition to Ubuntu partitiion, gradually decreasing size of Win and increasing size of Ubuntu.
Thank you,
John