On Tuesday 02 Sep 2008, Zico wrote: > Anyway, his hdd is 250 gigs. There are totally 8 partitions there, 7 > are totally NTFS & i think all of them are primary partitions.
To the best of my understanding, x86 BIOS allow only 4 primary partitions per hard disk. One of the primary can be extended within which one can create a lot of logical partitions. > Now, when he go for the ubuntu 8.04 installation, in the "hard disk > partition" sector, he cannot select "Manually partition", i mean, > this "Manually partition" is automatically *deselected. *When he goes > for partitioning, "*Fully automatic partition" comes with his whole > 250 gigs hdd. * By "deselected" you mean greyed out or disabled? If so, that is indeed strange. On the CLI, what is the output of "sudo fdisk -l"? > As far as i remembered, once i faced such type of problem & solved > this with debian dvd. There in debian only, i got the whole hard disk > partition table, from where i removed & created new ones. But, my > friend dont have any debian dvd now & he is really a novice user here > in linux world. > > Now, what should i suggest him? He should be able use CLI fdisk to delete some, if the system boots with the Ubuntu LiveCD. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, email [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe <password> <address>" in the subject or body of the message. http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
