Installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba laptop with Windows 8

[chris]

On 08/10/13 08:14, Jim Byrnes wrote:
> On 10/07/2013 07:45 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
>> On 7 October 2013 03:24, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>>> I know you can only have 4 primary partitions.
>>
>> Ah but hang on. You have listed 5 already. This should have clued you
>> in that something was up, surely?
>
> Which is why I came here seeking help.  The partition figures I posted 
> came from the Ubuntu installer screen.  Earlier when I had Ubuntu 
> running from the live dvd I looked at it with gpartd and all the 
> partitions I listed where displayed next to each other across the top 
> of the screen.
>
> My goal is to leave Windows 8 on the disk, not setup and unactivated 
> so if I need it in the future I could just set it up. Maybe that is 
> not even possible, I couldn't find any info about that by googling, 
> but then I am a poor googler.
>
>> How big is the disk?
>>
>
> 500 GB
>
> Regards,  Jim
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Win 8 has three primary partitions, which only leaves one primary, 
available. So you put root on that and then the rest into  extended 
partitions.