Ubuntu 14.04 LTS dual booting with Window 7 Partition problem (Dhanagopal R)

--- On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:11 PM, Dhanagopal R
<[email protected]> wrote:
| 2. Selected the free space using the Ubuntu partition utility
| 3. Created 1gb /boot logical partition ext4 - no problem
| 3. Then created a 30 gb / root logical  partition ext4 - no problem
| 4. Then created a 130 gb /home logical partition ext4 - There was problem.
| I could not proceed to create /swap partition.
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>Firstly, that is a very well written e-mail. You have provided all the
>steps that you had followed for us to understand what you are
>experimenting with.

Let me thank members who responded to my mail.

#1 Why are you creating logical partitions? You can create up to four
primary partitions.

The Windows HDD is having 5 following partitions
1, OEM 39mb OEM partion (Not sure logical or primary)
2, Recovery partition 29 Gb (Not sure logical or primary)
3. C: Primary partition 352 Gb
4. D: Logical  partition 166 Gb
5, E: Logical partition 158 Gb (In this partition I wanted to Install
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS)

As I am not sure whether the first two partitions or primary or logical, I
preferred to create linux partitions as logical to overcome the limitation
of not exceeding four primary partitions in a HDD.

#2 You do not need 1 GB for /boot. Try installing with separate /,
/home and swap primary partitions.

Of course, I can reduce the /boot partition size to 500 mb. I preferred a
/boot partition to install boot loader there to use windows  boot loader
instead of Grub 2 to avoid issues when upgrade to windows 10.

#3 Can you also check if there are no other primary partitions on the
hard drive?

There is one known primary partition C: and two more; OEM and Recovery
partitions of Windows 7 (logical?).

As somebody suggested, I can also wait for the release of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS.

Regards

R.Dhanagopal
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