Xubuntu install on Win7 laptop fails

[MR ZenWiz]

On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 1:27 PM, Xen <list at xenhideout.nl> wrote:
> Bob schreef op 13-07-2017 21:54:
>
>>> > Device         Start       End   Sectors   Size Type
>>> > /dev/sda1       2048    206847    204800   100M EFI System
>>> > /dev/sda2     206848    468991    262144   128M Microsoft reserved
>>> > /dev/sda3     468992 502231039 501762048 239.3G Microsoft basic data
>>> > /dev/sda4  943554560 976773119  33218560  15.9G Microsoft basic data
>>> > /dev/sda5  502231040 502233087      2048     1M BIOS boot
>>> > /dev/sda6  502233088 935806975 433573888 206.8G Linux filesystem
>>> > /dev/sda7  935806976 943554559   7747584   3.7G Linux swap
>>> >
>>> > Partition table entries are not in disk order.
>>>
>>> That last line is a danger sign although not necessarily fatal.
>>
>>
>> I don't know if it is a danger sign but that is how gparted does things
>> and the
>> partitioning program the installer uses. I can not speak to other
>> partitioning
>> programs because I have only used gparted but I think it is because of the
>> brain dead method of assigning partition names by linux and I was very
>> surprised by this when I started using Ubuntu.
>
>
> Parted can reorder them. Only sda4 is actually sitting at the end. It's a
> confusing thing and seems to be unnecessary, but also seems to not matter a
> thing...
>
It is set up that way because /dev/sda3 is the Windows partition that
used to fill the whole space between /dev/sda2 and /dev/sda4.

I shrank that partition to put a Linx one in there and didn't move 4
to line up with 3 before the blank space.  4 is the Lenovo recovery
partition.

MR