Re: Install Ubuntu on a partition?

zekolas enlightened us with:
> ok I don't think your following me. you have a drive that has 20
> physical gigs, you have a 20 gig extended partition on that drive with a
> 17 gig and a 3 gig logical drives

Ok, so let's give them names:

hda1 Extended
hda5 17 GB Fat32
hda6 3 GB Fat32

> You can delete the 3 gig logical drive, however you still have the
> 20 gig extended partition.

True

> Ubuntu wants to allocate space for a ext3 partition so unless you
> resize your 20 gig extended partition ubuntu will have no where to
> allocate a ext3 partition because you can't have and ext3 partition
> sit on top of a fat32 extedented partition.

What on earth are you talking about? "on top of"? The extended
partition is NOT a fat32 partition.

> Ubuntu needs un-allocated space to set up a ext3 partition

Indeed, and it's perfectly capable of resizing or deleting a fat32
partition in order to get that space. Unallocated space inside an
extended partition also counts as unallocated in this case.

> and in the case I described the drive has no un-allocated space
> because it is being used up by the extended dos partion.

And this is where you are wrong. If you change the type of hda6 to 82
(Linux) and then format it with a Linux filesystem like ext3, Ubuntu
will be more than happy to install on it.

Sybren
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