new partition for umbuntu

Tokay so i am having a hell of a time making a partition for Ubuntu, i booted from the cd tryed to do the install, and it only wants to let me do a 8mb partition lame, i defraged my hard drive no change, i tryed to use another linix based boot cd to partition and nothing should i try to make the new partition in windows? is it even possible at this point or am i looking at a full format yikes.

help plz

[MrSparkle]

You have to make the partition with the Ubuntu CD because Windows won't format the partitions with a linux compatible file system like Ext3.

When your installing Ubuntu don't click Guided partition click the Manual Partitioning option and do it manually. I'm assuming your going to wipe out any partitions that are already on your comp and start from scratch so just delete all the partitions until all thats left is Free Space then click Create New Partition and make it whatever size you want.

If your doing a dual boot I recommend making 2 Ext3 partitions and install Ubuntu on 1 of them and you can reformat the other one later. Remember to make a SWAP partition of about 2-4GB.

[MrSparkle]

If you don't wanna make a full format and wanna keep your Windows partition as it is just download a Windows partitioning program and make a new NTFS/FAT32 partition with it then when your installing Ubuntu delete the spare partition and reformat it as Ext3.

[Prometheum]

Just use Gparted (System>Administration>Partition Editor on the liveCD) to resize your windows partitions.

Originally Posted by Prometheum

Just use Gparted (System>Administration>Partition Editor on the liveCD) to resize your windows partitions.

tryed that no luck, the partition programs on Ubuntu and gparted live discs seem to be identical.


okay mr sparkle i will try this ill make the partition in windows then deleted it and make a new one as ext3.

thanks ill let u guys know how successfull i am.

okay eff this hard drive windows has it by the ball, with partition magic i could get a 2.5 gig partition but it wouldn't even be worth makeing that into a swap file. kk time to dig up my old 80 gig hd with windows 98 on it....

[Kamisama]

Stop acting like an idiot and give more detail.

If someone said there was an 8 megabyte partition to me, I would serious question what block device he or she is looking at. HDDs haven't been incredibly low like that for decades.

If you're resizing the NTFS partition, I suggest you don't make it any less than 25 GB. If you are able to resize it and it corrupts at 25 GB or lower, then you need to change how much you are resizing it. I then suggest you reformat with Windows and try to resize to 40 GB. You only need about 5 GB to play with a GNU/Linux distro.

If you keep acting like a twit and posting shit in terms of thx and l8r, I'm not going to respond. You didn't even follow the most essential rule that even Windows experts know: Give the specs.

Incase you didn't notice, yeah the programs would look identical. Because both of them are GParted. One is simply a live-cd (GParted Live-CD, I presume?) with the program inside of an X-server. The other is a GNU/Linux distro with the program and an X-server. Some versions of GParted are bad, because they don't undo things. For example, versions of GParted have a habit of doing steps you later decided not to have occur. If doing something and deciding against it, restart the programs. You'll save time that way.

Originally Posted by Kamisama

Stop acting like an idiot and give more detail.

If someone said there was an 8 megabyte partition to me, I would serious question what block device he or she is looking at. HDDs haven't been incredibly low like that for decades.

If you're resizing the NTFS partition, I suggest you don't make it any less than 25 GB. If you are able to resize it and it corrupts at 25 GB or lower, then you need to change how much you are resizing it. I then suggest you reformat with Windows and try to resize to 40 GB. You only need about 5 GB to play with a GNU/Linux distro.

If you keep acting like a twit and posting shit in terms of thx and l8r, I'm not going to respond. You didn't even follow the most essential rule that even Windows experts know: Give the specs.

Incase you didn't notice, yeah the programs would look identical. Because both of them are GParted. One is simply a live-cd (GParted Live-CD, I presume?) with the program inside of an X-server. The other is a GNU/Linux distro with the program and an X-server. Some versions of GParted are bad, because they don't undo things. For example, versions of GParted have a habit of doing steps you later decided not to have occur. If doing something and deciding against it, restart the programs. You'll save time that way.

shiver me timbers.....
specs you say here goes mastah:
Maxtor 200gb hd
Nvidia gf 65100 blah blah
amd ath 64x2 dual core processor 4600+


i want a 20 gig linix partition
i have no winxp cd i dont want to format.
i have defraged my hd
no partition programs want to let me
resize my hd verry much.
i have gparted and umbuntu live cds...... any better what else do you need to know???

[Kamisama]

Originally Posted by Barnabeast666

shiver me timbers.....
specs you say here goes mastah:
Maxtor 200gb hd
Nvidia gf 65100 blah blah
amd ath 64x2 dual core processor 4600+


i want a 20 gig linix partition
i have no winxp cd i dont want to format.
i have defraged my hd
no partition programs want to let me
resize my hd verry much.
i have gparted and umbuntu live cds...... any better what else do you need to know???

Alright, my intuition says if you say an 8MB partition, you might have been looking at the cd-rom drive or some other block device. If you're using gparted, familiarize yourself with the drop-down menus and such. If you can't see your drive listed anywhere, try messing with the bios. if you need to reset the bios, just make it go back to its defaults.

besides that, if you can't see your device through gparted, I'm going to assume the linux kernel and the modules don't work with your HDD. That seems like an odd thing to say, but it's possible. Otherwise, try a more recent version of gparted live-cd. Maybe try an ubuntu live-cd.

If you want to back up your windows xp partition, take a look at something called "clonezilla." it's an awesome thing to prevent you ever losing you windows xp system. You might want to remove programs and downsize everything (remove movies, games, mp3s, java, etc..) in the Windows partition if it's above something like 15GB.

Prometheum, why didn't you reply to this?