CarlWalters
May 25th, 2008, 11:07 AM
Hi,
I successfully installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my (previously) Windows Vista Dell Laptop, and was so impressed with it that I thought I'd install it on my desktop too. My Desktop is another Dell machine running Windows XP media Centre. I started the install by booting from the Ubuntu CD, all was going well until I got to the disk partition section. The screen showed that I could choose to the first option which was to let it partition automatically. The screen said that the Windows partition would have about 37GB and the Ubuntu partition about 32GB. This sounded fine so I clicked OK. Then I get a partition "Too Small" message.
I'm a bit confused as I thought 32GB would be enough. I don't wan to wipe my Windows partition just yet.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Thanks
Carl
I successfully installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my (previously) Windows Vista Dell Laptop, and was so impressed with it that I thought I'd install it on my desktop too. My Desktop is another Dell machine running Windows XP media Centre. I started the install by booting from the Ubuntu CD, all was going well until I got to the disk partition section. The screen showed that I could choose to the first option which was to let it partition automatically. The screen said that the Windows partition would have about 37GB and the Ubuntu partition about 32GB. This sounded fine so I clicked OK. Then I get a partition "Too Small" message.
I'm a bit confused as I thought 32GB would be enough. I don't wan to wipe my Windows partition just yet.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Thanks
Carl