HI
I'm installing Kubuntu 6.04 on an IBM Thinkpad X24 and I've run into some problems making my partitions.
First of all, I should describe the situation. As I said, it's a Thinkpad X24. It's got a 30gb hard drive, 256mb RAM, and a 1.13 ghz PIII. On the hard drive is a ~16gig NTFS partition for WinXP.
The problem I am having is that I am hitting my four-partition wall before I can create all the partitions. My NTFS partition is the first, and then I have ~12gb free space. Those 12gb need to be divided into:
1. A swap partition
2. A / partition
3. A /boot partition.
This wouldn't appear to be a problem, except that I have a mysterious, unlabeled ~2mb partition showing up in my tale no matter what I do. That means I can't make enough partitions.
Of course, I would have all this done automatically, because I'm not an expert and manually partitioning when I barely know how to use Linux just doesn't seem like a good idea. But I can't automatically partition, because the option doesn't show up when the installer asks how I would like to install. The options it gives me, despite claiming "many ways" to partition the drive, are:
1. Erase the entire drive--I'm not doing that, thanks
2. Manually partition.
So I am left with a bunch of questions:
1. Why won't it automatically partition my drive with the free space I have left? Other installers will do it, and if I recall, Ubuntu used to do it too.
2. If I do have to manually partition, how do I get around this problem I'm having? I don't see any way to resize or remove the pesky mystery partition.
3. If I do get around it, what sizes should I make my partitions? I was thinking about 250-300mb for the swap (256mb ram), I dunno how much for /boot, and whatever's left for /.
Thanks.
I'm installing Kubuntu 6.04 on an IBM Thinkpad X24 and I've run into some problems making my partitions.
First of all, I should describe the situation. As I said, it's a Thinkpad X24. It's got a 30gb hard drive, 256mb RAM, and a 1.13 ghz PIII. On the hard drive is a ~16gig NTFS partition for WinXP.
The problem I am having is that I am hitting my four-partition wall before I can create all the partitions. My NTFS partition is the first, and then I have ~12gb free space. Those 12gb need to be divided into:
1. A swap partition
2. A / partition
3. A /boot partition.
This wouldn't appear to be a problem, except that I have a mysterious, unlabeled ~2mb partition showing up in my tale no matter what I do. That means I can't make enough partitions.
Of course, I would have all this done automatically, because I'm not an expert and manually partitioning when I barely know how to use Linux just doesn't seem like a good idea. But I can't automatically partition, because the option doesn't show up when the installer asks how I would like to install. The options it gives me, despite claiming "many ways" to partition the drive, are:
1. Erase the entire drive--I'm not doing that, thanks
2. Manually partition.
So I am left with a bunch of questions:
1. Why won't it automatically partition my drive with the free space I have left? Other installers will do it, and if I recall, Ubuntu used to do it too.
2. If I do have to manually partition, how do I get around this problem I'm having? I don't see any way to resize or remove the pesky mystery partition.
3. If I do get around it, what sizes should I make my partitions? I was thinking about 250-300mb for the swap (256mb ram), I dunno how much for /boot, and whatever's left for /.
Thanks.
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