Ubuntu in Windows -> dual boot

[al2222]

Hi,
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 to Windows on trial. I am very satisfied after two months of usage and now I want to install it as a second system.

I have these "problems":
1, I don't want to start from zero and repeat all process of setting desktop and adding another application and packages.
2, I have notebook Compaq 6715s and I use kernel 2.6.31-14-generic. Newer versions of kernel, which came as update, didn't work. So I have to use this version.

Is it possible to safe actual installation, create proper file system on disk and copy/move Ubuntu to disk?

Regards!

Alex

>uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:05:01 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

>sudo fdisk -l
dev/sda1 * 1 4547 36515745 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 4547 8591 32484415+ f W95 (LBA)
/dev/sda3 8591 9527 7518208 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda4 9527 9730 1627136 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda5 4547 8591 32484352 7 HPFS/NTFS

>sudo df -h
/dev/loop0 15G 11G 2,9G 79% /
udev 436M 268K 436M 1% /dev
none 436M 136K 436M 1% /dev/shm
none 436M 200K 436M 1% /var/run
none 436M 0 436M 0% /var/lock
none 436M 0 436M 0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda5 31G 19G 13G 61% /host

[bigpayne69]

not sure how new you are to this but you could just use a G-Parted Live disk and copy your Ubuntu partition from the hard drive of you old computer to your new one. If you do, you may have to make that the new partition is in the same partition order as your old one otherwise grub will give you an error when you try to boot.

[al2222]

not sure how new you are to this but you could just use a G-Parted Live disk and copy your Ubuntu partition from the hard drive of you old computer to your new one. If you do, you may have to make that the new partition is in the same partition order as your old one otherwise grub will give you an error when you try to boot.

I have only one computer. I have Ubuntu as application in Windows on disk partition /dev/sda5 with HPFS/NTFS file system.