On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 10:41 AM, Dhanagopal R <dhanagop...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > I attempted to install Ubuntu 14.04 LTS 64bit in my Dell laptop (Inspiron > 17 3721 i5/ 6gb / 750 gb HDD / Windows 7 pro) to dual boot. In the laptop > legacy bios was enabled and secure boot disabled. I booted the system using > the downloaded ISO DVD and did the following steps: > > 1. Deleted the empty 170 gb Windows NTFS partition to create free space. > 2. Selected the free space using the Ubuntu partition utility > 3. Created 1gb /boot logical partition ext4 - no problem > 3. Then created a 30 gb / root logical partition ext4 - no problem > 4. Then created a 130 gb /home logical partition ext4 - There was problem. > I could not proceed to create /swap partition. > > After clicking OK, home partition did not get created. It was showing busy > icon for more than two hours. Then I clicked the cancel button. There was > no response for another one more hour. Only the busy icon was displayed. > Then I am forced to shutdown the system, removed the DVD. Rebooted into > Windows and checked the disk partition, all the partitions including the > deleted one remained intact as NTFS.
Not sure how new your laptop is i.e. chipset. Suggest you try 15.10. I have installed 15.10 on a newer Dell laptop (last summer) and things installed w/o any issues. I did not have to tinker with drivers; all devices (including keyboard back light, touch screen) are working out of the box! I plan to upgrade the OS when 16.04.1 LTS is released by summer 2016. -- Arun Khan _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc ILUGC Mailing List Guidelines: http://ilugc.in/mailinglist-guidelines
