installation question

[Tony Pursell]

On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 09:20 -0500, G. wrote:
> I have an HP G62 234 DX.  When I start installing Lucid it does not
> give me the option to install Lucid side by side with windows 7.  SDA
> 1-3 are ntfs and sda 4 is fat.   I need some advice on how to proceed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> gary
> 

Looks like HP is using all four avaialable partitions for Win 7.  Was
Win 7 pre-installed.  Did you create any new partitions in Win7?  You
need a free partition that Ubuntu can use as an extended partition to
put all its file systems in. That is why you don't have the option to
dual boot.

Tony