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[philokokus]

OK, then you do have Wubi install; that means the boot menu that you see on start up is actually Vista's boot menu and not Grub's boot menu. If you want to change the Vista boot menu, probably the best thing to use is EasyBCD within Vista. Give that a shot and let me know how it goes.

Hi

tks for the help. Unfortunatly I had to format my pc and now I have the chance to install ubuntu from scretch! I have 4 partitions in my hard drive in one is vista already installed and now I want to install ubuntu in another one.

When I started to install from the live CD, in the 4º step all the partition are there but when I try to install in one partition (25 Gb) it says that no swap partition is there. Do I have to partition another one just for the swap or is it ok to install without swap? If I have to make a swap partition is 5 Gb ok?

Tks again for all the support.
Jose

[caljohnsmith]

When I started to install from the live CD, in the 4º step all the partition are there but when I try to install in one partition (25 Gb) it says that no swap partition is there. Do I have to partition another one just for the swap or is it ok to install without swap? If I have to make a swap partition is 5 Gb ok?

Tks again for all the support.
Jose

It is possible to install Ubuntu without a swap partition and instead set up a swap file in your main Ubuntu partition afterwards, but I wouldn't recommend it if you can simply let Ubuntu have a swap partition. I think a 5 GB swap partition is larger than necessary. Swap generally doesn't need to be larger than 2X your RAM size, and I've heard that anything over ~4 GB really won't buy you much in performance; so even if you have more than 2 GB of RAM, I would stick with a 4 GB swap partition.

You might find the tutorial at Herman's website helpful for leading you step-by-step through the installation process:

http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p23.html
http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p22.html

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

[philokokus]

It is possible to install Ubuntu without a swap partition and instead set up a swap file in your main Ubuntu partition afterwards, but I wouldn't recommend it if you can simply let Ubuntu have a swap partition. I think a 5 GB swap partition is larger than necessary. Swap generally doesn't need to be larger than 2X your RAM size, and I've heard that anything over ~4 GB really won't buy you much in performance; so even if you have more than 2 GB of RAM, I would stick with a 4 GB swap partition.

You might find the tutorial at Herman's website helpful for leading you step-by-step through the installation process:

http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p23.html
http://www.herman.linuxmaniac.net/p22.html

Good luck and let me know how it goes.

Hi

I installed it with a 4 GB swap partition. Now it boots up with Ubuntu first but regarding to that I have done nothing. Just reinstalled Ubuntu and now it is booting first then vista.

The only problem I have now is that I don't have the sleep mode and hibernate and suspend freezes in a black screen and have to reset.

Any help for that?
Tks
José