Kubuntu 7.0.4 and disk partition problem

[Mark Wallace]

I didn't realize that it had that limitation.  It sounds like you have
about a 90 gig hard drive.

Some basic suggestions

Make SURE(!) that you have a good set of restore CD's for windows.  So,
if you don't  lke Linux, you can just do a full system restore for
Windows if you want.

Run the defrag tool on Windows before you do anything.

Back up all of your data before you do anything.  Maybe upload it to X
drive or put it on a flash drive, or burn cd's.

My full install of Linux in 8.5 gigs, and that includes downloaded but
uninstalled programs.  But I don't save things on my hard drive.  I
either burn them to CD's or upload them to x drive.  Most people have a
lot of videos, downloaded music, etc on their hard drives.  That means
that your 15 gig partition could fill up, fast.  If you find that you
like Linux better, you might wish you had all of the Windows room still
available for linux.

The last time that I had Windows on my system, it took up only about 20
gigs, not including videos and things.  You might be sorry that you
reserved 75 gigs for it.

Partitions can be resized later, but you have to know how to do it and
you might need Partition Magic (a proprietary program) to do it.  I once
just deleted the Linux partition and then had trouble getting the
Windows partition resized to fill the whole hard drive.  It can be done,
I just didn't know how.

Linux can be configured to get files from the Windows partition, but
Windows won't know that Linux is on your hard drive.  It will think that
your hard drive is smaller.  That doesn't sound consistent with the
other things that I am telling you, but I threw it in because it is
true.  When I was duel booting.  I got real good at screwing up Windows
by using Linux to take things off of the Windows partitions.  That's
part of why I gave up duel booting.  I also found maintaining two
platforms to be twice as much work.  Having a file that I was working
with on the wrong partition was annoying.

You picked the right distro.   Ubuntu is easily the most user friendly.

The CD install that you have will make Kubuntu the default boot up. You
will get a dialogue box when you boot up your system that will give you
ten seconds to go to Windows instead and will then automatically start
Linux That can't be changed through the GUI that I have been able to
see.  It can be changed in command mode.  Because I am Linux only, I
don't deal with those things too much.





On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 11:24 +0200, Luca wrote:
> Greetings
> 
> I'm trying to install Kubuntu 7.0.4 (Desktop CD) on a disk where WinXP
> is already installed.
> I've no partition ready for host the new linux OS, so I wanna use the
> partition utility available during install. 
> 
> My problem is this: I'm not very expert in the manual install and
> creation of Linux partitions so I tried the "Automatic" option, where,
> with a slider, I can choose the "New partition size". 
> 
> If I read a label such "New partition size" I think that I'm going to
> choose how big (or small) must be the new Kubuntu disk space!
> 
> So... why the slider only go from 100% to 43%? I wanna reserve only
> 15-20GB to Kubuntu, not 38Gb like the 43% minimum I can choose... 
> 
> There's something I'm missing?
> 
> Thanks,
> Luca
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