On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Arun Khan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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> To the best of my understanding, x86 BIOS allow only 4 primary
> partitions per hard disk.  One of the primary can be extended within
> which one can create a lot of logical partitions.
>

Yep! This is his problem.


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> By "deselected" you mean greyed out or disabled?   If so, that is indeed
> strange.


This is greyed out.


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>
> On the CLI, what is the output of "sudo fdisk -l"?


I think, he will definitely create problem if i tell him to do this. :)


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>
>
> He should be able use CLI fdisk to delete some, if the system boots with
> the Ubuntu LiveCD.


Same, he is really a novice user.

-- 
Best,
Z
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