rujith
October 25th, 2008, 05:15 AM
My Dell Studio Desktop with Windows Vista comes with three primary
partitions already installed (details below). I want to install
Ubuntu with dual-boot to Vista. Can Ubuntu live on one extended
partition? I was thinking of creating a fourth extended partition,
and putting two logical partitions on it, for / and swap. But that
seems a crummy way to do it. Can Ubuntu even boot off a logical
partition? I'd prefer to delete some of the existing partitions, but
am not sure whether that's a good idea. The existing partitions are:
Partition 1 OEM 55MB No drive letter
Partition 2 Primary 15GB D: Some kind of recovery utility
Partition 3 Primary 451GB C: Windows Vista
The first partition is something called "EISA Configuration." I don't
think I really need it, but am not sure.
Any advice on how to re-partition the disk would be appreciated. I
expect to use the machine mainly for Ubuntu, so it seems a shame to
keep three partitions for Windows and cram Ubuntu into one partition.
- Rujith.
partitions already installed (details below). I want to install
Ubuntu with dual-boot to Vista. Can Ubuntu live on one extended
partition? I was thinking of creating a fourth extended partition,
and putting two logical partitions on it, for / and swap. But that
seems a crummy way to do it. Can Ubuntu even boot off a logical
partition? I'd prefer to delete some of the existing partitions, but
am not sure whether that's a good idea. The existing partitions are:
Partition 1 OEM 55MB No drive letter
Partition 2 Primary 15GB D: Some kind of recovery utility
Partition 3 Primary 451GB C: Windows Vista
The first partition is something called "EISA Configuration." I don't
think I really need it, but am not sure.
Any advice on how to re-partition the disk would be appreciated. I
expect to use the machine mainly for Ubuntu, so it seems a shame to
keep three partitions for Windows and cram Ubuntu into one partition.
- Rujith.