[Ilugc] HDD paritition for Ubuntu 5.10

[Dhanagopal Rengasamy]

Mr.Bhuvaragavan wrote

 

> The next screen showed the existing
> IDE1 Master (hda)- 40 gb .............

Strange! Confirm you dont have 2 hard disks connected to the system!
Can you get us the *actual* details you see in this screen ?

> Will it list the partitions if I select the HDD listed and enter once 
again? Should I delete FAT32 partition first before creating ext3?

It must list all partitions as it is. In this screen, you must be able
to re-partition FAT32 as EXT3.


Hi
 

Regarding Ubutu installation, I am having only one 40 gb hdd and the fstab entry is given below. My idea is to isntall Ubuntu 5.10 /dev/hda6 and to multiboot winxp, mandriva and ubuntu using grub. I am unable to proceed the ubutu installation since the intaller fails to display the existing partition in my hdd evenafter selecting the - manually edit partition table - option.  

 

it displays only the following line.

 

IDE1 master (hda) - 40 GB ST340823A

 

If I select this it displays the following message.

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You have selected an entire device to partition. If you proceed creating a new partition table on the device, then all current partition will be removed.

 

Note that you will be able to undo this operation later if you wish.

 

Creat a new empty partition table on this disk.

 

Goback                                         Yes - No

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R.Dhanagopal

 

 

Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes

255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4865 cylinders

Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

 

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System

/dev/hda1   *           1        1275    10241406    7  HPFS/NTFS

/dev/hda2            1276        4865    28836675    f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)

/dev/hda3            4081        4774     5574555   83  Linux

/dev/hda5            1276        2677    11261533+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) 

/dev/hda6            2678        4080    11269566    c  W95 FAT32 (LBA) ..........> I have to install  ubuntu here

/dev/hda7            4775        4865      730894+  82  Linux swap

 


			
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