[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Chris Fowler wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-10-07 at 14:08 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:
>> I am _almost_ positive that Ubuntu can shrink the winders partition to
>> make room for itself.
> 
> I know it can.
> 
> I did this last week on a laptop running XP and NTFS.  After I installed
> Ubuntu I booted into Windows to make sure all was okay.  It did a chkdsk
> and then everything was fine.

XP != Vista

> When you run partitioner you'll select the manual radio button in the
> GUI.  Before you click next look at the graph at the bottom of the GUI
> showing your partitions.  To the right will be a gray bar.  It is not
> clear but that gray bar is drag-able.  Simply drag it left to reduce the
> size of the NTFS partition.

Vista uses a different variant of NTFS.  As I understand it, you DO NOT 
want Linux to resize the disk.  Do it in Vista.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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