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October 19th, 2008 21:00
Dual Boot
I have Vista installed and want to dual boot with Ubuntu 8.04. One site says to use the shrink manager in Vista to shrink the drive to allow space for Ubuntu. But the amount of shrink space is only 569 mb. I have about 64 gb free. How do I make more space to install Ubuntu?
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mfinnan101
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October 20th, 2008 20:00
Personally I would run a mile from using the Vista partitioner, it's quite buggy..
What I would use is the Gparted live CD, have a look here:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/
You can download an ISO from here:
http://www.icewalkers.com/Linux/Software/526550/GParted-livecd.html
Burn that to an ISO and boot from it.
Or indeed use the partitioner supplied with the Ubuntu disk while running in live CD mode.
The thing to do is shrink the Vista partition by whatever you want and leave the remainder unallocated.
Now reboot regardless of which one you opted on.
Vista then won't boot on account of Microsoft being great!! :smileymad:
What to do then is use the Vista setup disk to repair the bootloader using the "Repair my computer", that'll get Vista up and running again. Have a look here:
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-us/help/5c59f8c1-b0d1-4f1a-af55-74f3922f3f351033.mspx
It's a bit of a roundabout method, but it beats using the Vista partitioner...
Then install Ubuntu - upon selecting a partition in the Ubuntu installation process select the option "Most continuous Free Space", it'll create the ext3 partition and the swap partition accordingly.
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October 21st, 2008 12:00
mfinnan101
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October 21st, 2008 14:00
Microsoft in their wisdom designed Vista so that If you use anything other than the Vista partitioner to partition your hard drive Vista will then fail to boot.
So you'd have to repair the Vista bootloader regardless I'm afraid.
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October 22nd, 2008 12:00
mfinnan101
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October 22nd, 2008 17:00
Not quite...
You boot from either the Gparted LiveCD I linked to an ISO for or the Ubuntu setup disk itself.
You then free up some space on the hard drive using the partitioner merely by shrinking the Vista partition and leaving the remainder of the hard drive unallocated.
Next reboot and then boot from the Vista setup CD to fix the Vista bootloader using the option I linked to above.
Then lastly reboot off the Ubuntu setup disk and install Ubuntu with the "Most Free Space" option.