[Drumbum667]

When I boot Ubuntu from a cd I can get into it and I can't get internet and I can't install it. I try to install it and when I select manually edit partition table and select the partition I made and then I go to the next part and I say reformat it says cannot find root files or something like that. Any help would be appreciated.

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Did you get a shipped CD or did you burn it yourself, if you burned it yourself you might have burned to fast and damaged the disk, remember you require 2 new partitions for linux one for a swap partition and one for the OS itself, it needs to be big enough as well and you cant have to many primary partitions if you allready have two partition set as primary its quite a juggling act and if you have 3 you cant have anymore. You also need sufficient free space, i also found that the Gparted is fine for making and formating partitions but its not so hot at resizing a windows partition i would get some windows software and use that to make some empty space for gparted to work with.

Also linux doesnt play well with wireless so youll most likely need to be connected via ethernet to your router if you arent allready doing so.

[warriorscot]

Did you get a shipped CD or did you burn it yourself, if you burned it yourself you might have burned to fast and damaged the disk, remember you require 2 new partitions for linux one for a swap partition and one for the OS itself, it needs to be big enough as well and you cant have to many primary partitions if you allready have two partition set as primary its quite a juggling act and if you have 3 you cant have anymore. You also need sufficient free space, i also found that the Gparted is fine for making and formating partitions but its not so hot at resizing a windows partition i would get some windows software and use that to make some empty space for gparted to work with.

Also linux doesnt play well with wireless so youll most likely need to be connected via ethernet to your router if you arent allready doing so.

[Drumbum667]

I burned the cd myself and I burned it really slow. I already have two partitions set up. I used Partition Magic. Should I make another. One is like 20 GB and the Windows one is 55 GB. Should I set up another one for the swap and how big will that need to be. And even when I plug my laptop into my router it doesn't work. Could you go over how should setup the partitions and how to install it on those partitions using the manual partition table.

Edited by Drumbum667, 07 December 2006 - 06:51 PM.

[warriorscot]

The swap needs to be twice the size of the memory in the computer its for transfer of data between partitions etc. You designate the swap using the option to make a swap partition in gparted, the partition you install in should be formated to ext3.

[Drumbum667]

So I should make another 2 GB partition with PartitionMagic

[warriorscot]

aye

[Drumbum667]

When I make the partition for the Linux Swap should I make the file type 'Linux Swap". And should I change the bigger partition for Linux operating system to " Linux Ext3"

Edited by Drumbum667, 09 December 2006 - 09:33 AM.

[warriorscot]

Yeah the swap goes to swap partition, ext3 for the primary.