View Full Version : [ubuntu] Help with partition and instalation...
Joe_Swaza
December 10th, 2009, 02:14 AM
Ok, currently I have windows vista installed...what I'd like to do is wipe everything off my hard drive, and install ubuntu on half of my hard drive, and windows 7 on the other half. I'm faily new to partitioning, and completely new to any form of linux. So, please post detailed instructions.
phillw
December 10th, 2009, 02:32 AM
Ok, currently I have windows vista installed...what I'd like to do is wipe everything off my hard drive, and install ubuntu on half of my hard drive, and windows 7 on the other half. I'm faily new to partitioning, and completely new to any form of linux. So, please post detailed instructions.
Hi & welcome.
1) Put Win7 on - use your entire disk to do it. (As per a Normal Win7 installation)
2) Use the disk management utility in Win7 to 'shrink' it http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2672-partition-volume-shrink.html
3) Make sure Win7 boots happily (it may complain - if so, allow it to 'repair itself until it boots happily)
4) Boot the LiveCD and it will ask to use the 'free area' - Let it do so.
It will ask for the size of swap , as a rule of thumb... 1GB or the same as whatever RAM you have - whichever is greater.
That should have you up & running.
Regards,
Phill.
audiomick
December 10th, 2009, 02:43 AM
+1 phil. He knows what he is talking about.
You might consider making a seperate partition for / amd /home.
About 10 GB for /
Swap = RAM as Phil said.
The rest for /home
To do this, you have to chose the manual partitioning option in the ubuntu install.
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