Coastalguy
May 24th, 2012, 08:59 PM
I just installed an external SATA drive (tried USB by BIOS wouldn't recognize it. I want to install Ubuntu on it, along with Grub2, so that I can leave it on to boot to Ubuntu, or turn it off to boot to Windows. In my BIOS, I have my DVD first, this new drive with Ubuntu second and my main drive with windows MBR third.
My question is, as this new drive is 500gb, I don't want to waste all of it with just Ubuntu. I want to split it between ubuntu and Windows storage (no windows boots on it).
Am I correct that all I need to do is partition it into 2 partitions, with the first one large enough for ubuntu, and the second one as NTFS so windows sees it. If so, then I understand the Ubuntu installer, allows you to take free space (from the first partition) and assign it for swap, root, home and boot?
thanks,
My question is, as this new drive is 500gb, I don't want to waste all of it with just Ubuntu. I want to split it between ubuntu and Windows storage (no windows boots on it).
Am I correct that all I need to do is partition it into 2 partitions, with the first one large enough for ubuntu, and the second one as NTFS so windows sees it. If so, then I understand the Ubuntu installer, allows you to take free space (from the first partition) and assign it for swap, root, home and boot?
thanks,