problems with Ubuntu install

donkey42

donkey42

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i am trying to install Ubuntu on my existing Kubuntu HDD, but, i received an unexpected error, free space unusable (61120Mb)

i personally don't know why this error occurred, because, i only have 1 primary partition & an extended partition containing everything else (obviously excluding /boot)

please help if you can (again)

BTW: i'm currently on Ubuntu liveCD, and obviously posting a screenshot didn't work successfully, so, i'll try to describe the situation

i created a / (size: 2048Gb) partition and creation of further partition is not possible,

my partitions:
  • hda1 = /boot - 98Mb - the only primary partition (my original Kubuntu Gutsy)
  • hda5 = kbun / - 17125Mb
  • hda6 = /home (kbun) - 10478Mb
  • hda7 = /vm - 31453Mb - all my vm's
  • hda8 = /spr - 31453Mb - basically i put it in there if i don't know what else to do with it
this is on a 160Gb HDD
 
donkey42 said:
i am trying to install Ubuntu on my existing Kubuntu HDD, but, i received an unexpected error, free space unusable (61120Mb)

i personally don't know why this error occurred, because, i only have 1 primary partition & an extended partition containing everything else (obviously excluding /boot)

please help if you can (again)

BTW: i'm currently on Ubuntu liveCD, and obviously posting a screenshot didn't work successfully, so, i'll try to describe the situation

i created a / (size: 2048Gb) partition and creation of further partition is not possible,

my partitions:
  • hda1 = /boot - 98Mb - the only primary partition (my original Kubuntu Gutsy)
  • hda5 = kbun / - 17125Mb
  • hda6 = /home (kbun) - 10478Mb
  • hda7 = /vm - 31453Mb - all my vm's
  • hda8 = /spr - 31453Mb - basically i put it in there if i don't know what else to do with it
this is on a 160Gb HDD
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Well, I've never personally seen this problem, but I did find another thread (not here) where a ubuntu user has the same problem.

On another website, the problem with kubuntu turned out to be (and I'm guessing that this is yours):
http://www.daniweb.com/forums/thread96771.html said:
It seems that all my partitions were set as primary and the hard drive (or the OS) can not support more than 4 primary partitions (3 + the EISA partition). I just converted 2 of them to logical partitions and now everything works great.
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well as you can plainly see from the following image i only have 2 primary partitions
gparted.png[ot]problems with online image hosts[/ot]thank you for replying
 
donkey42 said:
well as you can plainly see from the following image i only have 2 primary partitions
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Ah, well I'll admit that I'm left clueless. I mean, you could always remove EVERYTHING and start over, but I dont think that's what you want to do and neither is it the proper solution. I will keep looking around to see if I can help you more successfully, but in the mean time maybe if we're lucky someone like AT will stop by.
 
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