i have a question
i want to dual boot, and create ubuntu on a second partition, and while im at it remove the windows partition that i dont use on here at all
can anyone help me out with this?
also, i want to run chkdsk first, does anyone know how i can do that on linux?
You might have given a bit more thought to your thread title. “hello” !?
You’ll probably want to backup your user files and wipe your disk. But if you give us the result of:
fdisk -l
We’ll be able to see what your setup is now.
fdisk -l says that the code isn’t found
im going to end up buying a new hard, and more ram
but since i probably won’t have the tools to back up my files and wipe clean for a week or so
in the meantime i wanted to run
/sbin/shutdown -r -F now
but it keeps telling me i need to be logged on as root
how do i do this?
at the logon screen giving my user name and password logs me in but doesnt run the os, just prompts me for something else and says ‘have a lot of fun’ lol
im sure you’ve heard this question a million times, sorry to ask it again
You also need to be su - to get fdisk -l
here are my stats:
Disk /dev/sda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 14946 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0xb8e9b8e9
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 5264 42275047 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 5264 14946 77778666+ f W95 Ext’d (LBA)
/dev/sda5 5264 5525 2104483+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda6 5526 8136 20972826 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 8137 14946 54701293+ 83 Linux
i really want to run the dskchk though
also, i ran the chkdsk, seems to be ok
lol this post disappeared for a minute, i wonder where it went
If I understand. You want to remove windows and install ubuntu to boot with your current Linux install in sda5,6,7?
You could just format sda1 (your windows partition) - use parted magic to format it to ext4
Now boot ubuntu and as it to install to sda1
Ubuntu will take control of the booting. This is probably the easier option for you.
It should find your other Linux install but if it doesn’t we can fix that by running sudo update-grub once in ubuntu