Unallocated Partition

[BizHat.com]

Hi all,

I am haveing a 40 GB HDD. On which 20 GB is used by Windows 2k and rest is Unallocated Space. That is i have 5 GB Primary Patrition and 15 GB of Extended Partition which is divided into 3 Logical Drives. The rest 20 GB is unallocated.


View Partition Information (http://www.bizhat.com/hdd/ext/)


How can i install Linux on this Hard Disk ?

Regards,

Yujin

[fancypiper]

Just choose to use the free space on the drive for the linux partitions during the install.

Linux will see these partitions
/dev/hda1
/dev/hda5
/dev/hda6
/dev/hda7

and the free space along with their associated filesystems. I can't tell which one will correspond to each drive letter as Windows does it's own thing with letters and partitions. Put a text file in each partition describing the drive letter and read that from Linux later to tell.

Put the install disk in and just don't use the ones you have for linux, choose a mount point for each of them (/mnt/<some-name>) and they will be mounted on boot and you can see them from Linux. Choose to use the free space for the Linux install.