<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Dear WPLUGers, </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I gave up on buying a suitable NetBook with ubuntu pre-installed and purchased a new Toshiba NB205-N325BL NetBook which came with Windows 7 installed. I want to dual boot it with ubuntu, but figured that it might work differently than the Windows XP OS that ubuntu plays with rather nicely so I googled for new instructions. I found fantastic directions at <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony">http://lifehacker.com/5403100/dual+boot-windows-7-and-ubuntu-in-perfect-harmony</a></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">These directions are very easy to follow however they assumed that my Windows installation would have only 2 primary partitions. My Toshiba NetBook came with 3 primary partitions so I was unable to create both an ubuntu OS partition and a shared data partition. (Somewhere out there in Cyberspace, it is prohibited to have more than 4). I have both Windows 7 and ubuntu running fine in their respective partitions. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap; ">
GParted shows the following hard drive allocations at present:
Unallocated 1.00MiB Label: Blank
/dev/sda1 ntfs Label: System Size: 1.46 GiB Used: 500.25 MiB Unused 999.75 MiB Flags: boot
/dev/sda2 ntfs Label: TI103127W0E Size: 72.31 MiB Used: 15.82 MiB Unused: 56.50 MiB
Unallocated Size: 4.70 MiB
/dev/sda4 ext4 Label: None (but I named it Ubunto in Windows) Size: 19.53 GiB Used 2.32 GiB Unused 17.21 GiB
/dev/sda3 ntfs HDDRecovery Size 7.43 GiB Used 6.87 GiB 570.MiB flags: hidden
Unallocated Size: 48.31 GiB </span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">I think I should keep the HDDRecovery partition /dev/sda3, but I am not sure why there are separate System and TI103127W0E partitions for Windows 7. I don't think I should blow away a partition called "System". And I assume that the big partition /dev/sda2 is also rather important. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Does anybody know how I can create a shared data partition in the remaining 48 GB unallocated? Can I migrate the HDDRecovery partition offline somewhere and be able to properly restore it later? Or maybe I should just run ubuntu OS on flash media as Nick suggested at the InstallFest. </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thanks, </span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Georgia, Times, serif" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Greg</span></font></div></body></html>