Jerry - I have 120GB that I just installed in my Inspiron 8100. I also doubled the RAM to 512K. I partitioned the hard drive with 80GB for Windows XP SP2. I had hoped to use the 40GB for Linux. Deframmenter was used before installing the CD for GpartEd. When I go into GPartEd, I have 3 lines for partitions. The first partition reads about 73GB Unused. The second partition has a triangle that makes the third line disappear. It lists the filesystem as "extended". The third line shows 33GB Unused. The first and third lines are listed as "ntfs" under Filesystem. When I put the arrow at any of the three listed partitions, and do a right click, I get a window. The first entry in the window is "new". If I can do a left click on the "new", I am home free. I know what I have to do to partition as I want. However, "new" is not highlighted so that it can be activated. I need to make at least two more partitions. How do I do it? I know that I can resize the third partition, but how do I get new partitions? Thanks
jerrylamos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You do need hard disk space to put a partition, say 4 gb for a minimal experimental partition, to 8 gb for a fairly useful one, to 20 gb for a full workhorse. If you don't have any space on the hard drive you either have to add a hard drive or squeeze XP down with resize. What I did on my XP system which only had 20 gb hard drive was go into XP, defrag to make space at the top, then in settings, control panel, system, virtual memory cut out all the page space to zero. That's to get rid of a big page file at the top of memory. Then I defragged again, looked at details, and very carefully estimated how much free space there was at the top. Then directly get out of XP hopefully without causing any more files to be allocated. Boot up Ubuntu CD Live, run Gparted, then on the XP partition, I resized it down a little less than the free space I thought I had estimated. If you resize down too much XP will get ill. If you resize down just free space, XP will run O.K. usually. Then with XP resized down, with the space freed up, you can make a partition for swap, say a little larger than your memory 256 mb min, maybe 512 mb, then the rest for Ubuntu. Has to be at least 2 gb, 4 gb to do any useful work. Good luck, Jerry -- Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from automounting new partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107259 You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber of the bug. -- Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from automounting new partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
