I don't know if this is where to get tech support.

[Stephen]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:
> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>   
>> Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>>     
>>> Stephen wrote:
>>>   
>>>       
>>>> I tried to in stall ubuntu on my computer. It told me that there was one 
>>>> minute left a about 79% of the install.
>>>>
>>>> 45 minutes later I found that my computer had locked up at 88% of the 
>>>> install. I tried to re-install and It wanted to use another section of 
>>>> the windows partition.
>>>>
>>>> I didn't get the option to:
>>>> 1)   use the existing linux partition.
>>>> 2)   repair the current ubuntu installation.
>>>>
>>>> The only option I had was to use a part of the existing windows 
>>>> partition, and reinstall the whole thing. Now I can't get rid of to 120 
>>>> gigs partition that ubuntu set up. My windows partitioner won't delete 
>>>> the partition because it says it is in an unknown format.
>>>>
>>>> When I try to remove the linux partition with ubuntu booted live it 
>>>> tells me I have to unmount the partitions that are higher than ext5 
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>     This is correct. One of the first 4 partitions are used to make 
>> partitions higher than the primary 4 partitions. So you need to remove 
>> the higher ones first.
>>
>>     Using the LiveCD select the good partition software at 
>> System-Administration-forget-the-name, this will let you delete any and 
>> all of the partitions as desired. You can now make 2 new partitions for 
>> another try at loading Ubuntu. Make a swap partition about 3 Gb and a 
>> big one about 5Gb for loading Ubuntu.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>>
>>     
>>>> before I can delete the partition and I can't find any way to do that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Stephen.
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>     
>>>>         
>>> Perhaps you could try a partition manager like GParted, that boots from 
>>> the CD, to delete all the unwanted partitions and maybe create the new 
>>> ones (you don't need 120 gig, just 10gig for root /  2gig for /swap and 
>>> 10gig for /home ) and give Ubuntu another chance with the Alternate CD.
>>>
>>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779 
>>> <http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=115843&package_id=271779>
>>>
>>> And yes, this is were you might get some personal support.
>>>       
>
> You can safely unmount both the windows NT partition and the Linux 
> partitions when working from the live CD. Everything runs in memory when 
> booting from the Live CD. So as Karl says, just start gparted partition 
> manager, it is a nice graphic appication. I would dele and recreate the 
> Linux/swap partitions and leave the Windows one alone if you want to 
> still be able to boot to Windows.
>
>   
Thank you. I didn't even think about that. The live version 
automatically mounts the windows partition which is part of the drive 
where I was trying to remove partitions.

I didn't think of that.

Stephen

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