installation question

[G.]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Tony Pursell
<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
>
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I have not added any.  So I have to choose which one to use for ubuntu?

Thanks tony!

gary