[ubuntu-uk] HELP: How to install the Ubuntu in one of the existing partition in a hard disk?

[Liam Proven]

2009/2/27 Alan Pope <alan at popey.com>:
> 2009/2/27 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>> 2009/2/26 Joseph Walton-Rivers <webpigeon at googlemail.com>:
>>> if you install gparted, you will be able to see where each partition is, and
>>> you'll be able to remove any partition you wish, it will appear under
>>> system->administration->Partition editor
>>
>>
>> He wants to install Ubuntu. To do this, he wants to get rid of his D:
>> partition. Until he does that, he can't install Parted, so that
>> suggestion is really not much help, is it?
>>
>
> Steady on there Liam. Keep off the grumpy pills.
>
> It's a valid suggestion. Gparted can be installed onto a running live
> cd (as can any other app if you have enough ram to hold it) and then
> the disk can be partitioned at will. This is assuming it's not already
> installed on the Live CD.

But it is already there - that's my point! And I was actually
seriously trying to be polite and constructive!

> It's not hard at all. You click each drive in turn and the one with
> the partition type NTFS is likely to be the one. In addition he has
> (as I understand) a C: with Windows installed and an empty (formatted
> NTFS) D:. In gparted the C: drive will show up as being partially full
> up whereas the D: will be empty.

But it won't tell you drive letters or let you move stuff between the
two, which Windows itself will...

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