Dual Boot Issue...Please Help!

[Hooly]

Hey all,

Hopefully someone here can help me out with this. I have an 80 gig HDD. I have a 20 gig partition for windows, a 40 gig partition for programs and storage and a non-formatted remainder. I want to install ubuntu on the empty partition but when I went to do that, the partition editor in ubuntu says that my second partition (programs and storage) is not primary. So I can't install linux on the empty partition. So I guess I need to reformat the storage partition and make it primary. Is this possible using the windows disk? I'm don't remember an option to make a partition primary or not. Anyone know?

Also, I thought I would take an image of the storage partition before I reformat it. Once I change it to primary, can I simply apply that image to it and have it still work properly? I would be using Acronis TrueImage.

Thanks all

[abf]

just use the integreated partitioner program that comes with the ubuntu installer, just pick "advanced partitioning" during the installation.

[Hooly]

But what about the extended partition? Doesn't it need to be primary?

Also, what about the disk image that I would be taking of my storage drive. If I take an image, then format it as primary, can I safely apply that image back to the reformatted drive?

[NOSintake]

i think what you want to do, is set up the empty 20GB, then once it is set up, click on it, and make part of it the swap (i made mine the size of my RAM), then make the rest the other part (ext3 i think...cant exactly remember). should work