Partitioning Question (non-cut off)

Corey Burger corey.burger at gmail.com
Wed May 9 13:51:14 UTC 2007


On 5/4/07, Tee Jay Rosene <teejayrosene at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a question regarding partitioning. I have a fairly large hard drive,
> 380 Gig, and I would like to set aside about 40-60 Gigs for Ubuntu/Kubuntu.
> I'm not that technically savvy, but I have done some preliminary research.
> From what I understand, with the most basic dual-boot install, Ubuntu will
> take up all the remaining non-Windows space for itself. I don't want that
> much space for Ubuntu.
> Actually, I wouldn't mind having it half-and-half...so about 190 for
> Windows, and 190 for Ubuntu.
> Does anyone have any suggestions as to the best way for me go about this?

If you are doing a fresh install, you can configure the two partitions
as you like. Just don't choose the automatic paritioning.

Corey




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