[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Chuck Payne]

On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Asher Vilensky <ashervilensky at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> -- Asher
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:28 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Asher Vilensky wrote:
>> > Yuck!  My disk size is 140G.  The partition is about 137G.  I had about
>> > 90G free before the shrinking.  However, the Vista shrink program game
>> > me only about 13G for other partitions and kept 76G free of disk space
>> > for the current C: partition (Partition_1).  I tried to re-shrink, but
>> > it wouldn't allow.  Any other Vista secrets to help convince this stupid
>> > OS that I HAVE THE SPACE...IT IS MINE...GIVE IT TO ME?
>> >
>> > -- Asher
>>
>> Hmmm, we didn't seem to have that problem.  So you can't shrink the
>> Vista partition any smaller?
>
> Found this, which confirms that Vista is buggy:
>
> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/working-around-windows-vistas-shrink-volume-inadequacy-problems/
>
>
> Will try it soon.  To be continued...
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Until later, Geoffrey
>>
>> Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
>> temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.
>>  - Benjamin Franklin
>> _______________________________________________
>> Ale mailing list
>> Ale at ale.org
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
>> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
>> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
> See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at
> http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo
>
>


Wow, why are you guys killing  yourselves, I am suprize an Ubuntu
person point this out. But the most painless why to install Ubutu on a
drive with out killing it is Wubi.

http://wubi-installer.org/

I have play with this and it nice. I have shown this to people that
freak when you talking partitioning a drive.

Now, about 11.1 and Vista. I didn't have any issues with using to
resize the drive. It worked nicely with the W7 that came on my Dell
M6400.

I have found this, it might help you if you want to use openSUSE. But
if you want to install Ubuntu with out any issues and messing with the
harddrive, try Wubi. My last job we couldn't mess with the laptops, so
to get around it, I use Wubi. Once I gave the laptop back, I simple
uninstalled and no one knew that I had install Linux on it.

-- 
-----------------------------------------
Discover it! Enjoy it! Share it! openSUSE Linux.
-----------------------------------------
openSUSE -- http://en.opensuse.org/User:Terrorpup
openSUSE Ambassador
openSUSE Member
skype -- terrorpup
twitter -- terrorpup
Identica -- terrorpup
freenode(irc) -- terrorpup/lupinstein.
friendfeed -- http://friendfeed.com/terrorpup

Have you tried SUSE Studio? Need to create a Live CD,  an app you want
to package and distribute , or create your own linux distro. Give SUSE
Studio a try.
http://www.susestudio.com