[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Jeff Lightner]

This has some information about doing it:

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/larry/resize/resizing.htm

Scroll down to where it talks about NTFS.

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeff Lightner 
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:43 PM
To: 'Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!'
Subject: RE: [ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

I used a Gparted live CD to resize a Windows NTFS partition once.
Windows automatically ran chkdsk after the resize and reboot.   

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of
aaron
Sent: Wednesday, October 07, 2009 3:21 PM
To: ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

On 2009, Oct, 07, , at 2:10 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Asher Vilensky wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> Please help me with some rust here.  It's been a while.
>> We have a Vista laptop (Gateway something).
>>
>> 1.  I want to install Ubuntu on it in a new partition.  Using  
>> Windows,
>> how can I tell if I can further partition the disk or if Windows
>> occupies it all?
>>
>> 2.  Assuming I can indeed partition and install Ubuntu on the 2nd
>> partition, when I boot the system, will it allow the user to boot  
>> either
>> Ubuntu or Windows?  How is that done?
>
> Just did this with Vista.  You need to use the Vista disc tool to  
> shrink
> the Vista partition.  Google Vista+linux+dualboot and you should get
> what you need on the specifics.

How does he insure that the windisease and manufacturer "recovery"
schemes don't destroy his new partition and boot configurations?

That stuff has bitten me whenever I've tried to keep the windisease
colony as boot option instead of just fsck-ing it, though I'll admit
that this has only been twice. :-)

peace
aaron
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