View Single Post
  #3   (View Single Post)  
Old 28th February 2009
IdOp's Avatar
IdOp IdOp is offline
Too dumb for a smartphone
 
Join Date: May 2008
Location: twisting on the daemon's fork(2)
Posts: 1,027
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by fbsduser
... move sda2, sda3, sda4 and sda5 out of the BSD slice ...
I'm confused by this. Looking at the Linux fdisk output, the BSD slice goes from 1 to 1459. All of the other partitions come after this slice, don't they?

And there is another odd thing in the setup. The final primary partition (sda4 = Linux swap) actually lies within the region delineated by the extended partition, i.e., 14339 to 14593 lies within 11907 to 14593. This seems unconventional and might be confusing gparted? -- that's just a guess, I've never used gparted.

Also you suggested using the sda2 partition to install Ubunto / ... if you have no valuable data on this HPFS/NTFS partition, you could I suppose try to change the partition type to 83 = Linux native with Linux' fdisk (possibly make a Linux fs on there too), and see if you can install on there?

These are all just things to think about, as I'm not 100% sure what you want to do.
Reply With Quote