Failed Linux install issue?

Question

So earlier today I tried to install Ubuntu 11.04 on my Windows 7 PC, dual-boot of course. I did the auto-partition and then I went to install. It suddenly gave me an error telling me that a partition needed was under 2.4GB and stopped installation. It doesn't dual-boot or anything. The Ubuntu files are just in there somewhere. It tells me when I boot from a CD/DVD that Linux is on that and asking me to delete Linux and re-install or tells me re-partition. I've tried to install multiple times and it's failed everytime. I would manually partition, but I'm using Linux for Android development and I don't know much about partitioning and feel I'll mess it up. But my main issue is that I want to completely erase everything Linux so that I can do a fresh install and try the auto-partition again.

Answer 1

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Good Luck

Answer 2

1. Your linux partition is too small. 2.4 GB is not enough space. You need at least 15 GB for the install and even more if you expect to have a lot of media or other files.

2. Some files probably were written to the 2.4 gb partition but they are not complete and usable.

3. GRUB is the last thing to be installed and was not installed. When grub is installed you will see a boot menu when starting the computer with the options to boot win 7 or ubuntu.

You will have to find more hard drive space for ubuntu. You can use a second hard drive or shrink the windows partition and format that space for ubuntu. Of course back up any important files first.

Gparted is a free and very good utility for manipulating and formatting partitions. See the second link.

Gparted will let you delete and reformat the 2.4 GB partition, but as above you will also need more space. Hopefully you are following the ubuntu instructions for the install.

If you do not have a windows app to clone/image your hard drive; here is a link to some free utilities. I have personally used and like PING.

Good luck

Answer 3

it sounds like your partition you wanted to install linux on is to small,

I hope you have 1 disc and 2 partitions 1 win and 1 linux?

if you have 2 drives you are in for a ton of trouble because of grub the boot loader,

if you can use lilo instead you should because even it's age it is much more reliable.

grub allmost allways gets confused which disk to boot,

try to get hold of norton partition magic from piratebay

it's a windows program you can run from windows or boot from cd,

the iso version is best because you can run it from cd,

the other only work from windows.

it's very easy to use because everything is in a nice gui,

from there you can change everything,

and resize your linux partition if it's to small.

if grub is stuck in MBR you can boot from a start floppy,

and run the command fdisk /mbr