What is the right way to Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.10 Dual-Triple Boot Partitioning for Laptop OEM?
- by Denja
Hi Linux Community,
I find my self struggling with the ever slow and buggy windoze OS once again.
It's Time to change with the Ubuntu 10.10 64bit as a really faster Operating System.
My Hard Disk laptop as a RECOVERY and HP_TOOLS partition they are both Primary.
I Have the System Recovery DVD for Windows 64bit should anything happen.
Here's the layout I used with windows before:
* (C:) Windows 7 system partition NTFS - 284,89GB (Primary,Boot,Pagefile,Dump)
* HP_TOOLS system partition FAT32 - 99MB (Primary)
* (D:) RECOVERY partition NTFS - 12,90GB (Primary)
* SYSTEM partition NTFS 199MB (Primary)
Here's the layout I want to make based on your answers
* (C:) Windows 7 system partition NTFS - 60GB (Primary) (sda1)
* (D:) Windows DATA partition (user files) NTFS - 120GB(Primary)(sda2);wanna share with Linux
* Linux root Ext4 - 100GB (Primary)(sda3) (Ubuntu 10.10 64bit)
* Linux swap swap- RAM size, 3GB (sda4)
* Linux root Ext3- 15,9GB (Extended)(sda5) (OpenSuse or Puppy)
Here is my New Ubuntu 10.10 64bit layout in use now:
* SYSTEM partition NTFS 199MB (Primary) (sda1)
**Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary.(?)**
* (C:) Windows 7 system partition NTFS - 90GB (Primary) (sda2)
* (D:) Windows 7 RECOVERY partition NTFS - 12,90GB (Primary) (sda3)
* Linux system partition EXTENDED - 195GB (Logical)
* Linux root Ext4- 10GB (Extended) (sda5)
* Linux home Ext3- 185GB (Extended) (sda6)
I didn't know if I could wipe all previous partitions when i installed Ubuntu because of the RECOVERY partition so I just made the space for my extended partition by deleting the HP_TOOLS (Fat32).
By doing this I managed to make and successfully install Ubuntu 64 but I couldn't actually make the partition for the swap or a third Linux OS.
Question 1: What is the right way to Windows 7/Ubuntu 10.10 Dual-Triple Boot Partitioning for Laptop OEM??
Thank you in advance for your advises and suggestions and Happy New Year to All!!