Re: I don't know if this is where to get tech support.
- From: Stephen <stephen_o@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:58:47 -0500
Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
Karl F. Larsen wrote:Thank you. I didn't even think about that. The live version automatically mounts the windows partition which is part of the drive where I was trying to remove partitions.
Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
Stephen wrote:This is correct. One of the first 4 partitions are used to make partitions higher than the primary 4 partitions. So you need to remove the higher ones first.
I tried to in stall ubuntu on my computer. It told me that there was one minute left a about 79% of the install.
45 minutes later I found that my computer had locked up at 88% of the install. I tried to re-install and It wanted to use another section of the windows partition.
I didn't get the option to:
1) use the existing linux partition.
2) repair the current ubuntu installation.
The only option I had was to use a part of the existing windows partition, and reinstall the whole thing. Now I can't get rid of to 120 gigs partition that ubuntu set up. My windows partitioner won't delete the partition because it says it is in an unknown format.
When I try to remove the linux partition with ubuntu booted live it tells me I have to unmount the partitions that are higher than ext5
Using the LiveCD select the good partition software at System-Administration-forget-the-name, this will let you delete any and all of the partitions as desired. You can now make 2 new partitions for another try at loading Ubuntu. Make a swap partition about 3 Gb and a big one about 5Gb for loading Ubuntu.
Karl
before I can delete the partition and I can't find any way to do that.Perhaps you could try a partition manager like GParted, that boots from the CD, to delete all the unwanted partitions and maybe create the new ones (you don't need 120 gig, just 10gig for root / 2gig for /swap and 10gig for /home ) and give Ubuntu another chance with the Alternate CD.
Stephen.
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779 <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779>
And yes, this is were you might get some personal support.
You can safely unmount both the windows NT partition and the Linux partitions when working from the live CD. Everything runs in memory when booting from the Live CD. So as Karl says, just start gparted partition manager, it is a nice graphic appication. I would dele and recreate the Linux/swap partitions and leave the Windows one alone if you want to still be able to boot to Windows.
I didn't think of that.
Stephen
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