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ThinkDigital
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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 22:58
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If you need it smaller, partition the harddisk with Gparted and then install linux into that partition

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bitJericho
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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 23:21
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lol, you can shrink the drive as small as you want. It's only giving you a min of 48gigs because that's what windows is using.

I use up about 5 gigs on my linux partition, anything above that is safe.


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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 23:40 Edited at: 10th Feb 2008 23:41
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How long should partitioning take? I have a 250 gig drive. I'm using the built in partitioner

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Posted: 10th Feb 2008 23:43 Edited at: 10th Feb 2008 23:43
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A while. Make sure you back up your files first.

Shouldn't take more than 30 minutes at most.


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Satchmo
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:14
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NO! I have resized my Windows partition! Only 42 gigs... Please I am not good with partitioning, how do I reduce the Linux partition and increase the windows!!!!

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bitJericho
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:15 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 00:16
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is linux up and running now? You can install gparted and resize appropriately.

Scratch that, load up partition manager, I think it's installed by default...


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:17
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Installed on Linux?

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ye, will windows even boot with no free space?

Boot linux, and resize the windows partition with linux's partition editor.


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:25
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Ok, I have about a gig of free space on my WIn partition.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:41 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 00:43
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I can;t find ubuntus partitioning tools!

My ubuntu isn't connected to internet, it uses wireless, but my windows is, are there any free wndows partitioning programs out there?

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:44
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as I already said, ubuntu has the built in partition manager. Use that.

It's under admin as "Partition Manager", I'm pretty sure it's there by default.

Otherwise, use gparted as we've said multiple times.


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:46
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Where is admin located?

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bitJericho
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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 00:48
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System -> Administration -> Partition Manager


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Not there. I will use gparted. Do you boot it from a cd? It's an iso file.

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im assuming so, if you downloaded the livecd (which you obviously did).

Alternatively, you could just boot your ubuntu cd and use the Partition Manager there (it's definitely there on the ubuntu live cd)


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On live cd? I will check.

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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 01:17 Edited at: 11th Feb 2008 01:17
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OK, it's there and resizing now. I appreciate the help everyone, especially you, Jerico. Have a cookie.

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Heh, no problem Good luck on that wifi issue though I'm at a loss on that one


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Posted: 11th Feb 2008 01:42
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By the way, the included partition manager is gparted, and damn wireless.

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Ah ok. When you get internet working, the first thing I'd recommend installing is gparted, it's quite handy.


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Just as an sidenote, the inbuilt partition editor Jerico2day was talking about is actually GParted. It does not get installed with the OS, but you can find it and install it with the package manager.

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