On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 02:41:25PM -0700, lakestevensdental wrote: > hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:15:58PM -0700, lakestevensdental wrote: > > > >> * W7 requires 4 partitions, leaving only 1 partition for a dual boot > >> to Ubuntu or other OS. Ubuntu currently recommends an separate > >> partition for swap memory, but W7 isn't going to allow it. > >> > > > > Has the partitioning system changed? I thought that we were limited to > > four primary partitions, leaving *no* partitions free for dual boot. Or > > else one of them could be the extended partition, which can contain > > *lots* of secondary partitions. > > > Possibly it's changed with 1T hds taking the market? When I installed > Ubuntu after W7, there were 4 W7 partitions and one free for Ubuntu. I > didn't really pay attention to whether the W7s were all primary > partitions or not. I do know there were no additional primary > partitions left after installing Ubuntu, cutting a chunk out of the > largest W7 partition, at least according to the Ubuntu partitioner. > > I figured with 4Gs of RAM, the need for a swap partition for Ubuntu > was minimized, at least for now. > I'm going to overwrite W7 in a couple days, which should free up a > couple partitions.
Before you remove w7, just to be clear, could you go superuser in ubuntu and fdisk -l the relevant drive? That would probably tell us just what is going on with the mysterious extra partition. > If I've got a spare partition, I suppose I could > then go back and tweak Ubuntu to add a swap partition. Or reinstall it > from scratch. Having only installed Ubuntu a couple weeks ago, I > haven't done much with Ubuntu other than browse around a bit and check > if it works with all of the devices I've attached to check against W7 > beta's poor ability to recognize drivers and stuff. Ubuntu 8.1 did just > fine finding everything -- no BS M$ W& driver $ignature enforcement. -- hendrik _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
