brighty22
Member
Hi,
I am trying to dual boot linux with 7... with windows installed first, keeping the windows 7 boot manager in control. I heard about easybcd from a friend and decided to use it... I looked into the documentation, and was planning on following this tutorial, but had problems with step 3 as the install process has been updated since it was made, and (being inexperienced) I'm not sure how to do the same thing with the new interface.
I need someone with experience/knowledge of installing Ubuntu 10.04.. this is the screen I got after completing step 2 of the tutorial:

(sda1 is my windows 7 partition, sda5 is the recovery partition that came with my pc, and free space is where i want to install ubuntu - I created it by shrinking C:/ using disk management in win7)
I already made the free space, but since I did it using windows, do I have to format it to ext3 like the tutorial says? Or will ext4 work (i heard it's better)? This is what came up when i clicked on the format checkbox:

(I filled in all the boxes as shown.. are they all completely right? Then hit cancel as I was too afraid of breaking something :x)
If I format it like this, will it just format this partition, or my entire hard drive? I think I know the answer.. but want to be safe
Also can I change the size value to 20480, as this is what I shrank c:/ by in win7.. so I am slightly confused as to why it has gone up - I don't want it eating into either the win7 or even worse recovery partition..
Finally, can someone tell me what to put in the 'device for boot loader installation' box in step 6? I have no idea.. despite reading the instructions twice. This is what disk management looks like from windows 7:

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
If you need any more screenshots, please don't hesitate to ask..
Thanks,
brighty22
I am trying to dual boot linux with 7... with windows installed first, keeping the windows 7 boot manager in control. I heard about easybcd from a friend and decided to use it... I looked into the documentation, and was planning on following this tutorial, but had problems with step 3 as the install process has been updated since it was made, and (being inexperienced) I'm not sure how to do the same thing with the new interface.
I need someone with experience/knowledge of installing Ubuntu 10.04.. this is the screen I got after completing step 2 of the tutorial:

(sda1 is my windows 7 partition, sda5 is the recovery partition that came with my pc, and free space is where i want to install ubuntu - I created it by shrinking C:/ using disk management in win7)
I already made the free space, but since I did it using windows, do I have to format it to ext3 like the tutorial says? Or will ext4 work (i heard it's better)? This is what came up when i clicked on the format checkbox:

(I filled in all the boxes as shown.. are they all completely right? Then hit cancel as I was too afraid of breaking something :x)
If I format it like this, will it just format this partition, or my entire hard drive? I think I know the answer.. but want to be safe
Finally, can someone tell me what to put in the 'device for boot loader installation' box in step 6? I have no idea.. despite reading the instructions twice. This is what disk management looks like from windows 7:

Any advice would be greatly appreciated
Thanks,
brighty22