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June 5th, 2009, 08:54 PM
Just yesterday I reinstalled Windows, and finally got round to updating drivers, etc. I've halved the size of the NTFS windows XP partition, so there's quite a big space left for an Ubuntu Installation. I did this through Partition Magic. The half that is waiting for Ubuntu is not formatted, it's unallocated.
I have a live disk of 8.10 which i'd like to use.
So, when I get to the partition menu, what's my best option?
If I choose install on longest span of free space, will this find the 70GB unallocated space? If so, That'd be good right? It's just, when I select this, on the preview bar it comes up with "Ubuntu 100%", which is kinda... strange.
What about manual partition, would this be better? I'm not confident about making swap, and now I'm really confused. Someone told me I need one partition for installation, and one for swap. And another tells me I need one for root, one for home, and one for swap. eh?
Guided resize seems to want to partition the already existing Windows sect, and Guided full disk isn't an option.
Oh yes, Wubi has never worked for me.
Side question: Anyone know how to remove the boot up option it has made? now that I've unistalled the Ubuntu it created. Would it be bad to leave it there and install an actual ubuntu?
Perhaps 9.04 has updated, but I'd like to stick with my 8.10 for now :)
Thanks for any help :D
I have a live disk of 8.10 which i'd like to use.
So, when I get to the partition menu, what's my best option?
If I choose install on longest span of free space, will this find the 70GB unallocated space? If so, That'd be good right? It's just, when I select this, on the preview bar it comes up with "Ubuntu 100%", which is kinda... strange.
What about manual partition, would this be better? I'm not confident about making swap, and now I'm really confused. Someone told me I need one partition for installation, and one for swap. And another tells me I need one for root, one for home, and one for swap. eh?
Guided resize seems to want to partition the already existing Windows sect, and Guided full disk isn't an option.
Oh yes, Wubi has never worked for me.
Side question: Anyone know how to remove the boot up option it has made? now that I've unistalled the Ubuntu it created. Would it be bad to leave it there and install an actual ubuntu?
Perhaps 9.04 has updated, but I'd like to stick with my 8.10 for now :)
Thanks for any help :D