maddy_in65
Level E
I am using ubuntu for 2 years now and never tired any other disto. Now i have decided to try Arch as another distro. I had Compaq laptop with 150Gb HDD.
However i want to use arch along with ubuntu and vista. I will install new version of Ubuntu 9.10 along with arch as i am using Intrepid. There are several reasons to use two Linux distributions on your laptop. My main reasons for installing Arch were: 1) I wanted to try more Linux distributions to get an idea of which would be best for me; 2) Arch is a particularly, fast, lightweight, leading-edge distribution with an excellent package manager; and 3) it is very different from Ubuntu and less newbie-friendly, providing a great opportunity for learning and customization, and it's a potential intermediate step to Gentoo or other source-based distributions.
So i am going to triple boot my system. My main issue is still i am not able to learn about partition. I tried to use gparted but i am not succeed to do partition my Vista drive. I am able to make only 1 drive from it. I will delete current ubuntu partition and install fresh version of 9.10. Please help to make my system triple boot and partioning. I had make necessary back up for vista but dont want to mess up with vista partition.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 4.1G 11G 29% / (Ubuntu Partition)
tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 473M 104K 473M 1% /var/run
varlock 473M 4.0K 473M 1% /var/lock
udev 473M 2.8M 470M 1% /dev
tmpfs 473M 1.4M 472M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 473M 2.0M 471M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda2 31G 14G 18G 44% /media/New Volume
/dev/sda1 96G 29G 68G 30% /media/C: (Vista drive)
However i want to use arch along with ubuntu and vista. I will install new version of Ubuntu 9.10 along with arch as i am using Intrepid. There are several reasons to use two Linux distributions on your laptop. My main reasons for installing Arch were: 1) I wanted to try more Linux distributions to get an idea of which would be best for me; 2) Arch is a particularly, fast, lightweight, leading-edge distribution with an excellent package manager; and 3) it is very different from Ubuntu and less newbie-friendly, providing a great opportunity for learning and customization, and it's a potential intermediate step to Gentoo or other source-based distributions.
So i am going to triple boot my system. My main issue is still i am not able to learn about partition. I tried to use gparted but i am not succeed to do partition my Vista drive. I am able to make only 1 drive from it. I will delete current ubuntu partition and install fresh version of 9.10. Please help to make my system triple boot and partioning. I had make necessary back up for vista but dont want to mess up with vista partition.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 15G 4.1G 11G 29% / (Ubuntu Partition)
tmpfs 473M 0 473M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 473M 104K 473M 1% /var/run
varlock 473M 4.0K 473M 1% /var/lock
udev 473M 2.8M 470M 1% /dev
tmpfs 473M 1.4M 472M 1% /dev/shm
lrm 473M 2.0M 471M 1% /lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
/dev/sda2 31G 14G 18G 44% /media/New Volume
/dev/sda1 96G 29G 68G 30% /media/C: (Vista drive)
after deleting ubuntu partition and other windows partition i cant make partition with gparted. while using gparted it doesnt allow to make single partition so i left it to make partition during installation and decided to install arch. but i think it is as easy as ubuntu installation and cant make successful installation. now i lost grub also and cant boot windows also. i will try once again when i wiil be at home after office.