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Dell Inspiron E1505, Dual-boot and restore partitions

post #1 of 2
8/11/06 at 8:41pm
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Hi everyone,

I'm having a headache getting Ubuntu 6.06 set up alongside XP on my notebook.

Basically I would like this config for the partitions...

Windows XP | /home (ext 3 - available to Windows and Ubuntu) | Ubuntu (ext3) | Swap

However, when I try to create this it throws a wobbly and tells me I can only have 4 primary partitions. I think the E1505/6400 has a restore one and a MediaDirect one? Is it safe to delete everything bar Windows XP during the install process?

I don't quite know when I'd use MediaDirect, and do have the Dell restore CD.

Any advice or ideas would be much appreciated. I just want to make sure it'll be ok to go ahead and delete them, and that this will let me go ahead!

Cheers

James
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post #2 of 2
8/11/06 at 8:56pm
its your system.....do what you want. its absolutely safe to remove the media and restore partitions if you'll never use them. my suggestion would be a slightly different layout.....and i think by "Ubuntu" you meant / (root).

consider this layout:
partition --- filesystem type --- what it does --- mount point
hda1 --- ntfs --- windows --- /dev/hda1
hda2 --- reiserfs --- / ---- / (including home and boot...ALL of linux goes here)
hda3 --- fat32 --- shared documents --- /dev/hda2 (or drive D or H or whatever in windows)
hda4 --- swap

i think this is probably a more useful layout so that then you can keep linux together, windows together, and have a shared partition both can access to share documents media files, and all that junk.


just something to consider...... your idea isn't bad though.
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