ubuntu installation on free continuous space....

[David Fox]

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 1:48 AM, MARCO <fantonmarco at alice.it> wrote:
> the page where select the positon on HDD to install, i have only two
> choices:
>
> -use entire disk
> -manual

You want manual partitioning. Unfortunately the installer isn't smart
enough to pick the partition that has the most contiguous free space,
you need to tell it that, so tell it to use the partition you worked
on before for use as root. If there are other available places that
are free, you can use them for swap, home etc. Did you have all that
partition dedicated to Windows before? Then you might be able to use
gparted to address the other partitions (apart from the windows one)
or remove that new partition and add in others, suitable for a smaller
root file system (10 gig is almost enough), and then divvy up the
other partition for swap and/or home depending on your available space
and needs.


59 megs is sufficient and probably overkill for a root file system,
but not if you have home directories in that space. Maybe you can
split that partition up - but that might be too difficult depending on
what's on the drive already.