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i would like to be able to set up more than 4 primary drives during the initial setup of kubuntu

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During the initial setup of kubuntu. I wanted to have more than 4 primary drives. I was unable to do this under the part where i configured my drive manually? Any help on this would be grestly appriciated.

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Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) said : 		#1

When you say "drives", do you mean "partitions"? It isn't possible to have more than 4 primary partitions on a drive. Instead you can have 4 primary and a number of logical partitions.

Can I ask why you want more than 4 partitions?

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Ernest (ernest-pruitt) said : 		#2

when i was trying to install kubuntu today i wanted to manually configure my
drive so that i would have 4 primary drives ....because one was the restore
drive for dell....i had to delete it to be able to make the 1024meg swap
drive. Which it took me a little while to figure it out... but I did
Ernest

On 11/19/06, Alan Pope <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Support request #2523 on Ubuntu changed:
> https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+ticket/2523
>
> Comment:
> When you say "drives", do you mean "partitions"? It isn't possible to have
> more than 4 primary partitions on a drive. Instead you can have 4 primary
> and a number of logical partitions.
>
> Can I ask why you want more than 4 partitions?
>

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