Acer Aspire One 532h-2Bh Partitioning and Ubuntu 10.10

Last night I tried installing Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One 532h- 2Bh netbook but couldn't. The problems faced were:-

THE PROBLEM:

• Full Install: Installation of Ubuntu started fine, all looked cool but suddenly while partitioning using Ubuntu 10.10 's native partitioning software I was stuck. The problem was the resize option was disabled and without it there was no way to claim space for Ubuntu.
• Wubi Install: Then I tried the WUBI way (btw WUBI is a tool to install UBUNTU as a native application in windows). Again the installation went fine, and was told to restart. Then was given the error "No Root Filesystem is defined, please correct from partitioning menu". This kept coming.

THE ROOT CAUSE:

The root cause to this is the EISA partition present for system recovery in windows based Acer netbook. This UBUNTU was not able to process, and hence, one night's sleep wasted :)

THE SOLUTION:

The solution that came to my mind was fairly straight forward, if UBUNTU can't human can. So thought of resizing manually using third party software. I stumbled across mini tool partition wizard, this is a superb free partitioning software. Highly recommended. Using it I resized my partition to squeeze out 30Gigs of space.

Then ran the Ubuntu bootable pen drive. Used the unallocated 30Gigs(between / and swap) and the installation succeeded.

PS: This post has been written from UBUNTU :) Trust me it works...