Re: Ubuntu – Win 7 Dual Boot

[G Gambill]

Response to all

Kitepilot, I seem to remember the idea of primary partitions as 'Extended'
from my fdisk days of more than 10 years back. There is no doubt an
opportunity here (there is no such thing as a problem, we only have
opportunities) to refresh my memory.

Matt, it seems that sda3 is the MS recovery partition and I should be able
to get by without it.  I have no idea what the sda4 partition is all about
but hope to before this adventure is over (Google is your friend).

Matt and Robert, I think I want to stay with Ubuntu and tough my way
through it (maximum learning). I do think I need to wait until the next
Installfest (Aug 3rd) so someone, knowing what we are doing, can watch over
my shoulder as I beat the keys.

Thanks to all.


On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 12:38 PM, Robert Holtzman <holtzm at cox.net> wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 07:56:59AM -0700, Matt Graham wrote:
>
>           .........snip.........
> >
> > So:  If you're paranoid, make backups of all the partitions.  Then
> delete sda3
> > and sda4 and create a new sda3 which covers everything from the end of
> sda2 to
> > the end of the disk.  Tell your distro's install CD to use sda3 as / .
>  And
> > think about using something other than Ubuntu; Unity is a pain.
>
> I agree that Unity is a pile of poo but that's no reason to switch
> distros if he's otherwise happy with Ubuntu. He can always install
> another DE, mate, lxde, xfce, etc etc etc.
>
> --
> Bob Holtzman
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