USB installation instructions for beginners

[Phillip Whiteside]

The splash screen now looks like

http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png

<http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png>The
reason for using Win partitoner when it is available is that Windows can
squeal like a scalded pig & require CHKDSK to run after using the ubuntu one
(not always, but enough times for the advice to be use the win partitioner),
this has an additional advantage that the OP ensures Win is still happy
before putting ubuntu onto the 'free' area this not blaming Ubuntu for
'breaking' their Win installation.

Regards,

Phill.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phill,
>
> On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 16:03 +0100, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> > the screen-shot (figure 2) is now wrong (don't blame me, they altered
> > the boot screen at the last minute !!)
>
> Thanks, nice catch. Do you happen to have an update screenshot, by any
> chance?
>
> > The thorny issue of resizing partitions, with Vista and Win7 the
> > general consensus on the forums seems to be to let windows to resize
> > the partitions rather than getting gparted to do
> > it.
> apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first.htm?page=2has the vista method, i understand it is the same for win7.
>
> I'd rather rely on the generally-available Ubuntu tools than the Windows
> ones (in case Windows can't boot, etc). Why do people recommend the
> Windows partitioning tools, are they having issues with the Ubuntu ones?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Bull
> https://launchpad.net/~philbull
>
>
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