Hi
I am trying to install Dapper on to some free space on my primary hard disk (sda) but coming acropper saying only allowed 4 primary partitions but am unable to create a logical partition unless using the extended partition created under Windows for a second logical drive (NTFS)
The disk layout is as follows:
/dev/sda1 - NTFS (Windows XP here)
/dev/sda2 - Extended
/dev/sda3 - NTFS (Data here for XP)
If I try and add partitions using the Ubuntu drive partitioner I am only allowed to create primary partitions which doesn't allow me to create a '/home' directory just '/' and 'swap'. I am allowed to add logical partition under the Extended option but this is NTFS and will lose data on it.
Any ideas?
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and decided to remove all disks apart from my SATAII drive and installed over the existing partitions (dev/sda 3 [swap],4 [/ ] and logical 6 [/home]. After rebooting Grub 1.5 loads and so do the options to choose between XP and Ubuntu. I booted into both OS's successfully and amended the 'menu.lst' file in grub to set default as XP and changed timeout to 3 secs.
