Ok, I partitioned and formated my hard drive, finally and now I am trying to install Linux XP 2006 into it and

Question

Ok, I partitioned and formated my hard drive, finally and now I am trying to install Linux XP 2006 into it and it wants to partition the hard drive again and it wont let me go to the next step without it and when I try to automatically or manually partition it using the linux program it wont let me it says there is not enough room and I get all kinds of bug errors.

How is this when the hard drive is a 40GB Hrd drv with plenty of room? HELP PLEAZE!!!!

Answer 1

I bought the same CD you have. The thing is this. Do not install this OS at all, it will not install any drivers you need in the first place. Then when I got to the desktop it does not look any thing like an XP windows. The reason it wants you to partition the hard drive is because that's the only way it works. Do your self a favor and toss the CD..

Answer 2

What's that? There is no Linux Versions like LINUX XP 2006 as u said. The one thing u have to do is u have to free up a space for Linux Separately.
For that,
Right Click on My Computer,
Manage,
Disk Management,
In that u will see the Partitions u have created,
Then copy all of u r data from the last drive to another drive.
Now in Disk Management, Right Click on the Last Partition,
Remove,
Then again Right Click on the Last Partition, (First its in Blue Color and now its in Parrot Green color),
Create Logical drive,
Enter the Amount (Means leave at least 10GB free space for Linux u have to give the Remaining amount of that drive).
Then Restart the SYS,
Start Linux Installation,
Then at the Partition Stage, Give that Keep all existing partitions and use free space, Then Continue, the installation,
Note: In Linux Installation after the partition step u will be asked to select the free space. there u must have to select the Last one (Its the free space created in WinXP).

Answer 3

When a Linux installation talks about partitioning a hard drive, it means that it is going to take the designated sector of the hard drive that you give it and split it up into sections of various sizes. The partitions that it creates are the swap, root (/), and /home partitions.

Check this article for some helpful tips on Linux partitioning:
http://www.control-escape.com/linux/lx-partition.html

Answer 4

When you where in windows you should have resized your C drive to say 20GB and then left the other space free. Then on the linux partion tool format the blank space and turn it into a EXT3 partition, this will allow the linux distro to be installed.

So basically make sure the 20GB or what ever you have set aside for Linux is not partitioned as NTFS or FAT32. When you open your my computer you should not be able to see the space as D drive. Your C drive (if you set 20GB for Linux) should now only be 20GB. Linux can then turn the space into its format EXT 3 and use it.

Answer 5

The first thing someone should have told you is; "Don't attempt to use Linux unless you know a great deal about computers" Linux is not designed for the casual PC user.

What you do is run the Fdisk utility and instruct it to partition the drive as a single 40GB partition and then when Linux asks to repartition the drive you instruct it to partition the drive into the segment sizes you wish to have.