First Installation from CD Rom

Please, can you tell us something more about this root filesystem message...?

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Ok i usually, using gparted, i create the free space that i want on a disk and after i answer to Ubuntu
to use automatic use free space.

To make free space using Ubuntu live install cd
please open the Partition Editor (gparted) from menu System->Administration->Partititon editor

Select your destination partition (the 20 Giga partition) right click with mouse on it and choose "delete"
then press the green "Apply" button
If gparted shutdown please restart gparted to view your just created free space.

Close gparted

Click on "install" desktop icon

when the system ask you, select "Automatic use free space" or something item like this

If you are still in trouble, be free to ask here.

Hope this helps

qiovanni please don't change the master question to reply/continue to this thread add new or new message using the bottom frame...
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I can read your reply to the question, via mail, but nothing will change into this thread...
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Stop wait don't apply this... i'm not sure of your disk conf...
I will give new quick instruction to check your system before...

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ok I've followed your instructions and now i am formatting all the unallocated space.

some unallocated space was there also before, it's been left by windows installation.

too late... I'm formatting.

I have more than 100 gb of stuff I would like to keep I hope it won't disappear now eheh

74%...

Using the Ubuntu install CD please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo fdisk -l

-l is lower -L

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Coapy and paste result here.

Thank you

Haargh...! I'm waiting for your, i hope good, answer...

ok cool I'm using Ubuntu installed on the HD right now !

my old stuff is all there so no problem.

I only had to change the boot sequence from HD 1 to HD 0 because Ubuntu changed my boot files , also windows.

I didn't try run windows but it should work fine.

thanks a lot for your help !

If you have other issue please make new question... by the way i think you are a lucky man ;-)

So i wish you a good 2008 year...!

Happy New Year to you too !!

by the way, these are the results of the scan with sudo you said before :

Disk /dev/sda: 164.6 GB, 164696555520 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 20023 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 10199 81923436 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 * 10200 12636 19575202+ 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 12637 20022 59328045 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 12749 20022 58428373+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6 12637 12748 899577 82 Linux swap / Solaris

Partition table entries are not in disk order

Disk /dev/hda: 81.9 GB, 81964302336 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 9964 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes

   Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 9964 80035798+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
gio@ubuntu:~$

Ok you can get access to your NTFS partitions directly from Ubuntu

First please update your fresh Ubuntu installation

Please open a Terminal from the menu Applications->Accessories->Terminal and type:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

give your user password when requested, you don't see nothing when you type it, then press enter.

Then install ntfs-config, type

sudo apt-get install ntfs-config

Then open the menu Applications->NTFS configuration tools and put a mount point for your NTFS drive

If you are in trouble i'm here for 7 or 8 hours and i can help you...

Thank you

ok very good ! I will do that update. I am back on XP now.

all my old partitions are there, nothing has changed.

The only thing is I can't see the new Ubuntu partition in windows now. 25 gb is too much for Ubuntu so I will have to delete the partition again and make a smaller one !

I tried to install flash web player before but it didn't work. is it possible to install on Ubuntu ?

You don't never view the ext3 Ubuntu partition from Window, you can view and access to it with additional Windows software...
Yes sure you can install flash...
If you want to resize your Ubuntu partition without reinstall it, boot from Ubuntu live cd and use gparted you can do all from it... it take some time while resize the ext3 partition.

ok really cool ! I've posted a new question about booting from a Usb key (pendrive)

I would like my OS to be portable ! I have a 4 gb pendrive and I would like to install Ubuntu on it and boot from there !

ok i seen but i leave it opened someone may help you better
i never installed Ubuntu on a pendrive
By the way i will search something and i will answer here...
So you have two way opened... a private and a pubblic answer way.

Again, you are lucky man...;-)

thanks ;)

Not so easy...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LiveUsbPendrivePersistent

This seems more easy to do:
http://www.debuntu.org/how-to-install-ubuntu-linux-on-usb-bar

or using a virtual machine "Qemu"
http://www.pendrivelinux.com/2007/03/26/portable-qemu-persistent-ubuntu-linux/