Hi I attempted to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit in my Dell laptop (Inspiron 17 3721 i5/ 6gb / 750 gb HDD / Windows 7 pro) to dual boot. In the laptop legacy bios was enabled and secure boot disabled. I booted the system using the downloaded ISO DVD and did the following steps:
1. Deleted the empty 170 gb Windows NTFS partition to create free space. 2. Selected the free space using the Ubuntu partition utility 3. Created 1gb /boot logical partition ext4 - no problem 3. Then created a 30 gb / root logical partition ext4 - no problem 4. Then created a 130 gb /home logical partition ext4 - There was problem. I could not proceed to create /swap partition. After clicking OK, home partition did not get created. It was showing busy icon for more than two hours. Then I clicked the cancel button. There was no response for another one more hour. Only the busy icon was displayed. Then I am forced to shutdown the system, removed the DVD. Rebooted into Windows and checked the disk partition, all the partitions including the deleted one remained intact as NTFS. Earlier I had installed different versions of Ubuntu in many laptops and desktops (dual booting). I find this problem strange and also googled a bit. Some people have reported similar issue i.e. Ubuntu partition utility taking longer time to create ext4 file system. I shall be thankful if someone from ilugc suggest me a solution. R.Dhanagopal _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
