| woli | hi | 03:30 |
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| woli | look, this is the thing | 03:30 |
| Jack_Sparrow | Hey | 03:30 |
| woli | i want to install ubuntu in my brand new vista system | 03:30 |
| woli | but it comes with a lot of small partitions | 03:30 |
| woli | well 3, but thats still too much for a brand new system | 03:31 |
| woli | and i want to know which partitions could I wipe out. | 03:31 |
| woli | do you have vista? | 03:31 |
| Jack_Sparrow | so the first problem is the 4 primary partition limit. | 03:31 |
| woli | is there one actually? | 03:31 |
| Jack_Sparrow | you will need to create an extended partition and create logicals inside that | 03:31 |
| woli | oh i want that | 03:32 |
| Jack_Sparrow | no I dont use vista.. and I wont let my frineds do vista | 03:32 |
| woli | but there goes my other problem, the os partition, which occupies the 90% of the hdd is not inside the extended... | 03:32 |
| woli | if i want to resize it, i need to turn off the 'round to cylinders option | 03:32 |
| Jack_Sparrow | how big is the extennnded and what is on it now | 03:32 |
| woli | i dont know what that is, and if its evil or if its not | 03:32 |
| Jack_Sparrow | woli, best to break partitions on cylinder boundaries | 03:33 |
| woli | the extended is 2,50GB big and only a fat partition called MEDIA DIRECT is on it... | 03:33 |
| Jack_Sparrow | how big is the extended and what is on it now | 03:33 |
| woli | that | 03:33 |
| Jack_Sparrow | 2.5 gig extended only | 03:34 |
| woli | yes... | 03:34 |
| woli | my hdd is 500 gb big.. | 03:34 |
| woli | is it a big problem? | 03:34 |
| Jack_Sparrow | 2.5 gig extended is worthless | 03:34 |
| woli | it is | 03:35 |
| woli | i can resize it, can't i? | 03:35 |
| Jack_Sparrow | make sure it has nothing you need.. and delete it and the extended, then resize your vista partition | 03:35 |
| woli | what happens if i turn the 'round to cylinders option' off? | 03:35 |
| Jack_Sparrow | then crerate a new extended with two ext3 and one swap | 03:35 |
| Jack_Sparrow | woli, why are you needing to do that | 03:36 |
| woli | i am an order freak.. | 03:36 |
| Jack_Sparrow | not a good idea.. you will waste space | 03:37 |
| woli | will i? | 03:37 |
| woli | well, i managed to do it rounding cylinders... i just unchecked it and checked it again... it worked... | 03:37 |
| Jack_Sparrow | defrag vista, twice... before you resize | 03:37 |
| woli | the problem is now i have 3 unallocated separate partitions | 03:37 |
| woli | ok i will... | 03:37 |
| woli | do i still need to, even when being able to do it rounding to cylinders? | 03:38 |
| Jack_Sparrow | use gparted .. the gparted livecd would be my choice but you can run it from ubuntu livecd, there are occasionally issues whickh is why I use the standalone gparted | 03:39 |
| Jack_Sparrow | woli, on a new system I doubt you need to defrag, but safer to do it.. twice | 03:39 |
| woli | well, i am in the live session, with gpa7rted | 03:39 |
| woli | but ok, i will return with defraing done... | 03:40 |
| Jack_Sparrow | Ok, so you have the basics of what you need | 03:40 |
| woli | i will just erase the recovery partition, or should i leave it for now? | 03:40 |
| Jack_Sparrow | I will NOT be here | 03:40 |
| woli | you will not? | 03:40 |
| Jack_Sparrow | leave the recovery partition | 03:40 |
| woli | Jack_Sparrow: why? | 03:40 |
| Jack_Sparrow | I told You I was leaving and could only give you a couple minutes | 03:41 |
| woli | look, i will only use vista for games and other software | 03:41 |
| woli | ok, ill look for somebody else then | 03:41 |
| Jack_Sparrow | leave the recovery partition.. | 03:41 |
| Jack_Sparrow | goodnight | 03:41 |
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