i've attended alexandria conference; i'm facing installation issue and seeking help; when I try to partition, after I defined ext3 / and ext3 /home the remaining partition became unusable; it seem that after making 4 partitions ! for your information, I have only 2 drives, windows on c:\, and empty d:\, i'm dedicating d:\ for Ubunto
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you are facing this
you are facing this problem cause you are trying to create more than 4 primary partitions, try to create the linux partitions as logical partitions insied your extended partitions.
Ubuntu 8.10 avoids this issue
I've went to ubuntu.com, downloaded ubuntu 8.10, installed it on the same machine. The lovely part that it accepted the 5th primary drive.
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There's a trick M$ uses to
There's a trick M$ uses to create a workaround for the four partition (sda1,sda2,sda3,sda4) issue by converting one of the primary partition into extended one. Inside the extended partition you can create more logical partitions (sda5,sda6,...). Even though Linux has no such problem; it's better to follow M$ partition table schema; in case something happened to Windows and you need to reinstall it.