Guide me to install ubuntu ... Vista installed already..

[Rahim]

but i have important files.. too many .. right now i cant foramt and all..

but i can partition my d: or E: to say even 40 GB for linux...

i am not able to partition themm...

^Thats what i am saying. Create 2 partitions from E: drive, one 15 GB for root"/" and 1 GB for Swap. It will not format anything. Ise Gparted Live CD or check if Ubuntu Live CD has gparted in it(I dont remember)

 

[naveen_reloaded]

so i need a cd now to write gparted??? am i right ??/

 

[Rahim]

^Ya. SOmebody comfirm that Ubuntu Live CD has Gparted?

 

[praka123]

^YES!OFCOURSE!,
in ubuntu live environment,do as below:
press "alt+f2" to get run dialog.
then "run"

gksudo gparted

 

[Rahim]

Thanks prakash bhai for the confirmation.
Then that solves his partition problem. Use Gparted to create the desired partitons.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

ok now loading ubuntu.... if i am not confident willl abort the installation and come back again here ..

^YES!OFCOURSE!,
in ubuntu live environment,do as below:
press "alt+f2" to get run dialog.
then "run"

gksudo gparted

do u mean while installing ??

 

[praka123]

^YES!!!

 

[naveen_reloaded]

ok will try now...

ok i am replying from live ubuntu..

i used that gparted app... but it has option to format not to partition... wht shall i do ???

reply

 

[praka123]

u have to delete a partition.or resize the last partition if free space exists.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

how to resize .. i have loads of space....

 

[Rahim]

^Select your last partition (something like sdax) and choose resize.
Can you post a screenshot ?
This is Mine*i15.photobucket.com/albums/a388/rahimveron/th_Screenshot--dev-sda-GParted.png

 

[naveen_reloaded]

*img405.imageshack.us/img405/4413/screenshotrn7.th.png

now can somebody tell me how much to resize ???

 

[mehulved]

Move the right black handle towards the left to decrease partition size. Or change free space following to 25GB

 

[naveen_reloaded]

so this will create a new aprtition ??? then wht should i do ???
i have set "free space following " to 25GB

now i set it as said b4 and did a apply ... but got the error

*img301.imageshack.us/img301/4738/screenshot2vq5.th.png

 

[praka123]

^do as per screenshot to create 25GB free space.press "apply"
then after finishing operations,right click in free-space to create a 15GB ubuntu partition "/" and a 1.5GB swap partition.

 

[naveen_reloaded]

it gets me error ... refer my prev post

 

[praka123]

^check again.free space might have already created.cancel operations to check whether free space is created(refresh)

 

[naveen_reloaded]

no same error

 

[naveen_reloaded]

guys can anyone help me today ???

yesterday was near disaster with loads of error..

today i founda way to partition usiong disk tool in vista...

but i dont know whether to format or how to proceed from there ...

can anyone help me a fresh??

 

[Dhruv11]

Can i have a triple boot system ? I already have XP and Vista installed.
If yes, can i run the Ubuntu live cd from any of my installed OS to start installing Ubuntu ?
Also im a bit confused with partition thing. I have 5 partitions :
C: (XP), D: (Vista), E: (Movies), F: (Songs) and G: (I will prefer this partition to install Ubuntu).
So do i have to delete this G: partition from disk manager first ? The size of this partition is around 31 GB in total. I want around 15 GB to be allocated to Ubuntu. And with rest of the 15-16 GB i wanna create a new partition for my misc. files.