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derek0
October 26th, 2008, 05:24 PM
I'm trying to install Ubuntu on my Sony Vaio laptop. The original OS is Vista. While I was thinking about only running Ubuntu on it originally, after having this issue in a supposedly automatic, easy installation, I don't want to get rid of the original OS anytime soon.

So anyway, I burned and ran the LiveCD, started Ubuntu from the prompt, so it's running off the CD, then I click install on the desktop. It goes through a few steps, then the last thing I did was adjust a slider that would decide how much space each OS would get in their partitions. Ubuntu was to get 50 gigs out of 141. But when I pulled the slider over and clicked "forward" to start the partition resizer (or whatever it was doing) stayed at 0% and didn't move for a good 45 minutes. So I canceled it and went back into Vista to defrag before I tried again.

Can anyone help me out? What should I try to do other than the streamlined installation? I have no Linux experience.

Pumalite
October 26th, 2008, 05:50 PM
You have to allocate space for Ubuntu with the Vista partitioner first.