Acer aspire v5-571p-6815 Kubuntu install

[Gil Gibbons]

On 11/04/2012 09:14 AM, L V Gandhi wrote:
> I purchased the above laptop with win8 and touchscreen today. When I
> checked disk management I found that it already have 4 primary partitions;
> 1)500 mb  recovery,
> 2) 500 mb for  EFI
> 3) 687gb  for running win8 and
> 4) 11.5gb for recovery partition.
> Though I can install Kubuntu in virtual machine, is there any possiblity
> of dual booting keeping recovery partitions as I do not want to forego
> warrenty. Any one has installed dual booting in such a system?
>
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> L V Gandhi
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>Use  gparted to create an extended partition.
first delete the recovery partition then move/shink
Win8 to to say 50 gb of additional free space. Then create the extended 
partition, Then create an win NTFS partition say 14 gb
Then use Win6 to do a backup of Win8 Then you can install Kubuntu to the 
remaining free space.