USB installation instructions for beginners

[Phillip Whiteside]

Hi Phil,

Maybe you can link to this
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowtoResizeWindowsPartitions for dealing
with partitioning (I now know WHY it borks some windows installs). I've had
a read of it & it ticks all the boxes on how to use the Ubiquity system,
Gparted and the Win system, along with the settings for using the linux
based ones.

Hope that helps.

Regards,

Phill.

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 8:50 PM, Phil Bull <philbull at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Phill,
>
> On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 10:10 +0100, Phillip Whiteside wrote:
> > The splash screen now looks like
>
> > http://people.canonical.com/~cjwatson/tmp/ubuntu-boot-screen-new.png
>
> Thanks, I've added it to the wiki.
>
> > 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.
>
> Ah, OK, that's irritating! I don't have enough time to update the
> instructions, since it'd require lots of mucking around with Windows. If
> someone would like to have a go at doing the update, or coming up with
> more robust instructions for doing the partitioning with Ubuntu (like
> getting Windows to force a chkdsk on first boot) then I'd be grateful!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
> --
> Phil Bull
> https://launchpad.net/~philbull
>
>
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