does this look reasonable

Karl F. Larsen klarsen1 at gmail.com
Sat Mar 14 18:27:52 UTC 2009


Gary Herbert wrote:
> I used to have a duel boot system... One day I started having problems with
> Ubuntu... It would lock up, take a long time to get gmail and other bad
> stuff... Only way I could get out was to reboot... I finally backed up Vista
> and put in my CD and proceeded to install Ubunta... Here is what I have:
>
> Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14593 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
> Disk identifier: 0x28000000
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/sda1   *           1       13995   112414806   83  Linux
> /dev/sda2           13996       14593     4803435    5  Extended
> /dev/sda5           13996       14593     4803403+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
>
>
> Gary H.
>
>   
    It looks as if your done with windows, but your wasting a lot of the 
hard drive. It will work but you do not need a 110 GB partition for Ubuntu.

    How did you get this layout?

Karl



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