[heffer]

i'm at this window for installing ubuntu and i'm not sure wut to do...

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v7...gAnch=imgAnch2

as far as i know, "hda5" and "hda6" are my drives f and g. and i've got 9gb in each. could someone lead me thru how to install this distro onto my g, meaning the hda6 thing. like what do i put in those blanks so that i have it installed in hda6? thnx

[jakec]

Heffer,

Maybe this Will help:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/I386

are you trying to edit the partitions Manually? I wouldn't reccomend this unless you are 100% sure of what you are doing, as I said in one of your other posts I replied to this is where another HDD comes in Handy cause if you stuff up you just wipe it and start again.

you need at least 10 Gig for root and 500mb Swap space judging by that screen shot your fine, as I am not sure if you are sharing your Windows HDD or not I'd suggest getting another HDD to install ubuntu to.

try these Steps:

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1. Choose "Manually edit partition table"
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2. Listed will be your current partitions

3. Select the partition you want to resize and press Enter.

4. Select "Size:", press Enter.


5. Select Yes, press Enter.

6. Type in a new size in Gigabytes for your partition, it's recommended you free up AT LEAST 10 GB of free space for your Ubuntu install. Press Enter when happy with your changes. It may take some time to apply the changes.

7. Create a swap partition of around 500 MB.

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Select "Finish partitioning and write changes to disk".

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Finish installing your Ubuntu system.
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On reboot, remove your Ubuntu cdrom from the cdrom drive, you should be presented with a list of operating systems to boot. Ubuntu should have automatically detected your Windows installation and added an option to boot it on this screen.

this site Should also help you out:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~djm/ubuntu/

hope this Helps,

Jake