<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 7 February 2016 at 21:56, David Goldsbrough <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:daveg@boavon.plus.com" target="_blank">daveg@boavon.plus.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div>Well something happened if not what was desired! But no twisted knickers!<br><br></div><div>I booted from a Ubuntu liveCD and then CTRL-ALT-F1 to get to command prompt and ran all commands as sudo.<br></div><div><br></div>I scribbled down outputs following many steps/commands you gave but forgive me if I cannot fully transcribe to here - my eyesight is so poor.<br></div>STEP 1<br></div>No outputs from 1 to 3 written down but all seemed within order (question though - should I have been typing "5" rather than "3" as per your instruction?)</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div>Yes, I appear to have mistyped.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">The partition you now have at /dev/sda3 needs removing with “d” followed by “3” and then “enter” again as before.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">You also need to repeat the delete step with “5” instead of “3” to remove the partition at /dev/sda5.</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">Then you can redo steps 2 thru 4 after fixing step 2 which I also got wrong when I said to “accept the defaults”: you need to specify that you want it to create a “logical” partition rather than “primary” when it prompts you what type of partition to create. (I believe the prompt is "Primary/Logical?" where the response needs to be to type the word "logical" followed by enter.)</div><br><div>-- <br></div><div class="gmail_signature">Regards,<br> The Honeymonster Daniel Llewellyn</div>
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