dualbooting ubuntu and vista

[fbp90crx]

I'm wanting to put ubuntu on family PC so I was wanting to dualboot to see if they would like it over vista. I'm wanting to build a Ubuntu partition with Ext4 and a swap, what is the best way to do that?

[merlinus]

Use vista's disk manager to shrink its partition and leave room for ubuntu. Defrag first, though.

Then during installation you can set up partitions for / (root - the ubuntu filesystem), swap, and /home. You will be able to format them with ext3 or ext4.

Do a search for partitioning and you will find lots of good info.

[Mark Phelps]

Second what merlinus said ... and want to emphasize that you use the Vista Disk Management tool to shrink the Vista OS partition. If you use the Ubuntu partitioner or a GParted LiveCD, you run the risk of corrupting your Vista installation so that it's not bootable anymore.