<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:35 PM, Stephen Constantinou <<a href="mailto:stephanos@writeme.com">stephanos@writeme.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Dear All I have a PC with a 160 GB HDD. It is partitioned as follows SIZE USED sda1 fat16 41MB 33MB sda2 ntfs 78279MB 56634MB sda4 fat32 3380MB 2366MB sda5 ext3 4186MB 604MB sda6 swop 4186MB 0MB sda7 ext3 8381MB 3316MB sda8 ext3 28697MB 1216MB sda9 ext3 28648MB 6842MB sda10 ext3 4194MB 100MB It boots XP and Mandriva. My intention was to install Kubunto 8.10 to replace Mandriva. I thought I knew what I was doing until I got the Prepare Diskspace section of the installer. After choosing to be guided over partition 8 I was offered a slide bar that seemed to change partition 8 from the initial setting of sda8, 13.4GB 50% AND kubuntu 8.10, 13.4GB, 50% I could move the bar left to increase the kubuntu partition/section but only reduce sda8 to 4.1GB 15% and kubuntu to 85%. I chose this 15/85 ratio not fully understanding what I was doing but at least believing I was not altering the windows installation. As I progressed I got to a stage where it confirmed I was about to create partition 11 of SCSi1 (0,0,0) (sda) as ext3 and partition 12 of SCSi1 (0,0,0) (sda) as swop Now I am confused. Am I really creating more partitions and how do I simply use the existing partitions for kubuntu. Perhaps this was not a problem but I cannot see how creating more partitions is what I want to do and why can I not use the whole of partition 8 for kubuntu? I abandoned it and am posting this question to be cautious. Any guidance and help appreciated. </blockquote></div> I would use gparted to delete the partition (mandriva) and create an empty partition, then install kubuntu on the new created partition Sincerely Meg