Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (29 Viewers)
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So I was looking for my Kubuntu 9.04 CD, and among my huge pile of CD's, I couldn't find it. So after sometime, I decided to pull out a blank CD and burn the ISO. Few mins after starting to burn it, I go back to put the stack of blank CD's back into their place, and there... I find my Kubuntu 9.04 CD. 
Coming to think of it, I've spent SOOOOOOOOOO much on blank CD's and DVD's, half of them aren't of any use now!
Anyway, here I am about to erase Windows XP off the face of my hard drive, hopefully for the last time.
Coming to think of it, I've spent SOOOOOOOOOO much on blank CD's and DVD's, half of them aren't of any use now!Anyway, here I am about to erase Windows XP off the face of my hard drive, hopefully for the last time.
So I was looking for my Kubuntu 9.04 CD, and among my huge pile of CD's, I couldn't find it. So after sometime, I decided to pull out a blank CD and burn the ISO. Few mins after starting to burn it, I go back to put the stack of blank CD's back into their place, and there... I find my Kubuntu 9.04 CD. Coming to think of it, I've spent SOOOOOOOOOO much on blank CD's and DVD's, half of them aren't of any use now!
Anyway, here I am about to erase Windows XP off the face of my hard drive, hopefully for the last time.
Coming to think of it, I've spent SOOOOOOOOOO much on blank CD's and DVD's, half of them aren't of any use now!Anyway, here I am about to erase Windows XP off the face of my hard drive, hopefully for the last time.
Does anyone know if I can set my Linux partition as a Logical partition and not a System partition? I'm asking cos I NEED to install Windows for work related stuff, and, long story cut short, I had to remove the Windows drive, and I cannot reinstall it cos it can only be installed on a System partition and not a logical partition.
I use logical partitions whenever I can, because certain backwards operating systems flip out when there's more than one primary partition. Linux doesn't care one wit.
Primary1
Extended2 ->
-> Logical5
-> Logical6
this is where names like /dev/sda5 come from, first logical partition on the drive
The other thing is that you can only have 4 primary partitions but you can have as many logical as you want
Primary1
Extended2 ->
-> Logical5
-> Logical6
this is where names like /dev/sda5 come from, first logical partition on the drive
The other thing is that you can only have 4 primary partitions but you can have as many logical as you want
The thing is that the linux partition has been set as the System\primary partition. Now when trying to install Windows, it tries to set the target partition as a system partition, but fails, cos the linux one is the system partition, so I'm unable to install Windows.
I know what you're thinking... Don't help me in installing Windows!
But please, help.
I know what you're thinking... Don't help me in installing Windows!
But please, help.
The thing is that the linux partition has been set as the System\primary partition. Now when trying to install Windows, it tries to set the target partition as a system partition, but fails, cos the linux one is the system partition, so I'm unable to install Windows.
I know what you're thinking... Don't help me in installing Windows! But please, help.
I know what you're thinking... Don't help me in installing Windows!
But please, help.
Code:
Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Label] Size (MB)
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sda1 Boot Primary NTFS [] 24001.37
sda5 Logical Linux ext3 27003.60
sda6 Logical Linux swap / Solaris 3018.68sda5 is / and sda6 is swap.
I've been setting it up like this for years because it's the most likely to work. I recommend it.
