USB and Partitioning...

[spr71]

Hey all,

Was installing Kubuntu on a USB HD and picked to manually partition drive. 300 Gb drive I'm partitioning (or tried to) 100 Gb for K and leaving the rest for XP. Here's the deli-ma. I resize the partition then create 5 Gb for / and 2 Gb for the swap then I want to create /home with the rest but the create button is grayed out and I cant create the home partition. Can someone help please. Thanks

[dibl]

Re: USB and Partitioning...

You only get 3 primary partitions, and you're shooting for 4 partitions total on your drive, so you will need a logical partition. Here's some material on how to plan it and how to share the drive with Windows:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

HTH

[spr71]

Re: USB and Partitioning...

You only get 3 primary partitions, and you're shooting for 4 partitions total on your drive, so you will need a logical partition. Here's some material on how to plan it and how to share the drive with Windows:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

HTH

Thanks dibl.... I had printed this out and the guide as well but in the guide it shows them as all Primary. (ware I got confused).

Also for those of you who have done it to a USB, once the grub comes up can I put it on the USB only and boot from USB first and have it work, and when its not on boot from internal hard drive? Or does this conflict??

[dibl]

Re: USB and Partitioning...

This forum is full of reports of trouble trying to boot from an external USB drive. I haven't tried it, but it seems to be quite difficult, if it's possible at all.


EDIT: Here is some material that may be helpful, if you want to pursue setting up a USB bootable device (it's written for a thumb drive, but the principle is the same):

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/02...r-linux-users/