Tobiah7989
July 26th, 2008, 12:03 AM
I have an older VPR Matrix laptop that's been choked by a Vista upgrade... I would like to install Ubuntu (which will be my newbie intro to Linux) but there's a problem during install: it only recognizes 494MB of free space, and unlike the example here
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing-partitioning.html
there is no option at any point to "erase entire disk", which is what I want to do. I am trying to install from the 8.04 iso on a flash drive, working through QEMU. Vista won't allow me to boot from a cd. Ran into the same problem (494MB) on my good laptop, trying to set up for dual boot. I've already partitioned 22GB, first as unallocated, then as a new volume, neither worked. I've spent 3 days searching discussion forums for a solution, and have pulled out my last hair! somebody pls help if possible.:confused:
https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/installing-partitioning.html
there is no option at any point to "erase entire disk", which is what I want to do. I am trying to install from the 8.04 iso on a flash drive, working through QEMU. Vista won't allow me to boot from a cd. Ran into the same problem (494MB) on my good laptop, trying to set up for dual boot. I've already partitioned 22GB, first as unallocated, then as a new volume, neither worked. I've spent 3 days searching discussion forums for a solution, and have pulled out my last hair! somebody pls help if possible.:confused: