[Ilugc] Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem (Dhanagopal R)
- From: dhanagopalr@xxxxxxxxx (Dhanagopal R)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 13:10:42 +0530
--- On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Dhanagopal R
<dhanagopalr at gmail.com> wrote:
| 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.
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Firstly, that is a very well written e-mail. You have provided all the
steps that you had followed for us to understand what you are
experimenting with.
Let me thank members who responded to my mail.
#1 Why are you creating logical partitions? You can create up to four
primary partitions.
The Windows HDD is having 5 following partitions
1, OEM 39mb OEM partion (Not sure logical or primary)
2, Recovery partition 29 Gb (Not sure logical or primary)
3. C: Primary partition 352 Gb
4. D: Logical partition 166 Gb
5, E: Logical partition 158 Gb (In this partition I wanted to Install
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)
As I am not sure whether the first two partitions or primary or logical, I
preferred to create linux partitions as logical to overcome the limitation
of not exceeding four primary partitions in a HDD.
#2 You do not need 1 GB for /boot. Try installing with separate /,
/home and swap primary partitions.
Of course, I can reduce the /boot partition size to 500 mb. I preferred a
/boot partition to install boot loader there to use windows boot loader
instead of Grub 2 to avoid issues when upgrade to windows 10.
#3 Can you also check if there are no other primary partitions on the
hard drive?
There is one known primary partition C: and two more; OEM and Recovery
partitions of Windows 7 (logical?).
As somebody suggested, I can also wait for the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.
Regards
R.Dhanagopal
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