After hearing so much about it, I recently sent off for and received the Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS Desktop Edition operating system.
I have a laptop Compaq series pp2140. 1.3GHz Athlon processor, 512Mb Ram, 30Gb Toshiba hard drive. Windows XP professional. I want to install the Ubuntu system along side windows XP.
Before hand I defragment the hard drive in Windows XP and made sure there was plenty of spare room on my hard drive. The laptops 30Gb hard drive is partitioned into two parts.
C: part which is holds the window xp operating system is 20Gb in total and has 11.8Gb free space.
D: part is 8.4Gb in size all of which is free space.
I booted my laptop with the Ubuntu CD in the tray and the Ubuntu operating system loaded and started correctly.
To install the system I followed the advise on the following site:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Ubuntu-7-10-68645.shtml
I double clicked the install icon on the desktop. Proceeded through the first 3 steps without problem.
On the fourth step there are three choices on how to partition the hard disk.
1. Guided use entire disk.
2. Guided use largest continuous free space.
3. Manual.
When I select the second choice as is recommended by the above guide I get the following error message:
I have a laptop Compaq series pp2140. 1.3GHz Athlon processor, 512Mb Ram, 30Gb Toshiba hard drive. Windows XP professional. I want to install the Ubuntu system along side windows XP.
Before hand I defragment the hard drive in Windows XP and made sure there was plenty of spare room on my hard drive. The laptops 30Gb hard drive is partitioned into two parts.
C: part which is holds the window xp operating system is 20Gb in total and has 11.8Gb free space.
D: part is 8.4Gb in size all of which is free space.
I booted my laptop with the Ubuntu CD in the tray and the Ubuntu operating system loaded and started correctly.
To install the system I followed the advise on the following site:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Installing-Ubuntu-7-10-68645.shtml
I double clicked the install icon on the desktop. Proceeded through the first 3 steps without problem.
On the fourth step there are three choices on how to partition the hard disk.
1. Guided use entire disk.
2. Guided use largest continuous free space.
3. Manual.
When I select the second choice as is recommended by the above guide I get the following error message:
Is my hard disk too small to install Ubuntu? Any other advise on this would be helpful as well.Failed to partition the selected disk
This probably happened because the selected disk or free space is too small to be automatically partitioned.