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The Ubuntu dial boot tutorial says:

a GRUB boot partition 100 Mb -- formatted to filesystem type ext3

a logical partition for the / (root) folder of each planned Linux (or Mac) OS (at least 10 Gb each, but 20-50 Gb is better) -- formatted as ext3 (or ext4 if you are planning to use a newer Linux OS)

But how to format ext3 type? Windows XP doesn't offer this type. Only FAT32.

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    Windows does not understand `ext3` or `ext4` file systems so you can't format from Windows. However the installer can create the partitions it needs see [Dual boot windows XP and Ubuntu 12.04](http://askubuntu.com/q/148881/107450) as suggested by Radu. – Warren Hill Jun 26 '13 at 14:14
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    What tutorial are you following ? I advise you use the official documentation and, IMO, there really is no need for a separate GRUB or boot partition. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall – Panther Jun 26 '13 at 16:36
  • @bodhi.zazen, I read from here https://help.ubuntu.com/community/PartitioningSchemes. Your link is really helpful, thanks. – Green Jul 01 '13 at 14:47

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