cfdisk on Ultimate

[DaddyX3]

By looking at your screen shots, you are trying to install to the 465 GB drive? This is in Fat 32 format, this should be just fine... we work with that format as well.
When you right click on the drive in gparted does it give you the option of 'unmount'? Does it give you the option of 'resize' or 'format to' ??? What can you do with it?

[jjfox30]

Hi there, how to use cfdisk formatting program during ubuntu installation?
Current formatting program does not recognize my very full of partitions hd, but cfdisk does.
I'd like to choice between gparted and cfisk, but I do not know how to modify Ultimate intaller.

Is it possible?
Can you help me?

P.S. Sorry my poor brazilian english.

I'm going to inject this here, I think the question that needs to be asked here is why during installation the "HD" is not being recognized??? Sounds to me to be more of a hardware problem, than software, if I read your original post correctly, you're having problems formatting during installation???

Yes, I have problems formatting during installation, only way is erase whole hd..

[jjfox30]

By looking at your screen shots, you are trying to install to the 465 GB drive? This is in Fat 32 format, this should be just fine... we work with that format as well.
When you right click on the drive in gparted does it give you the option of 'unmount'? Does it give you the option of 'resize' or 'format to' ??? What can you do with it?

All option above are disabled.
I have some, FAT 32 and NTFS, partitions, empty space, files that I can't erase and windows working Vista.
Any tip?

[pch.shot]

I would suggest at this point that you move all the stuff you want to keep on to a usb hard drive or burn to discs if you don't have one. Then once you have all that done using this:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile ... _id=271779 Burn the ISO image
set up 3 partitions. One which will hold Vista which will be formatted as ntfs one for Ubuntu which will be formatted as ext3(or any other operating system you would like) and one as a swap which will be formatted as linux-swap(it is like the page filing system in Windows were it will use the hard drive as ram when you run out-if you have 2 gigs of ram or more you don't need the swap). Then install Vista on the first partition. Make sure it works. Then put in the Ultimate disc and when you get to the partition manager select manual and choose the second partition to install Ultimate on-setting your mount point as /. You should be able to do this in a few hours depending on how much stuff you have to back-up and how much ram your computer has. Once this is all done then you can put all your stuff back onto your computer. Then keep all your stuff organized. Fat partitions are great for flash drives but for Windows ntfs is the way to go with big hard drives. You may want to consider installing a small hard drive as well dedicated to just operating systems and software and your large drive to store your stuff on. That way in the future when you want to install operating systems you won't have to go through all this work!! You may be able to avoid most of this if you just select manual install at the partition manager. I would have to actually see an english picture of what your partitions look like to be of any further help. Hope you get it all worked out soon. Let us know how you make out. Good Luck!!

[DaddyX3]

By looking at your screen shots, you are trying to install to the 465 GB drive? This is in Fat 32 format, this should be just fine... we work with that format as well.
When you right click on the drive in gparted does it give you the option of 'unmount'? Does it give you the option of 'resize' or 'format to' ??? What can you do with it?

All option above are disabled.
I have some, FAT 32 and NTFS, partitions, empty space, files that I can't erase and windows working Vista.
Any tip?

If Vista is still functioning, I would then try to do your partition editing from within VISTA. Check out this how-to on dual booting with VISTA, it will explaing how to shrink your partition to give you space for the Ultimate Edition install.
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista ... htm?page=2

Hopefully you'll get things working with this method.