Dual booting without repartitioning

[Nathan Krasnopoler]

I forgot to mention that I'm technically knowledgeable to understand 
much of any of that, but does it mean that i can install it normally, 
without repartitioning?

C Hamel wrote:
> On Thursday 23 February 2006 22:36, Nathan Krasnopoler wrote:
>   
>> *I have a HP computer with about 85 gigabytes free on the main
>> partition, and 5 gigabytes being used on a second partition for
>> recovery.  Is there a way to dual boot Ubuntu on the 5 gig partition,
>> and still use files on the other one with linux?*
>>     
> I don't see why not, if I understand what you're attempting.  Here's my 
> scheme:
>
> I have one 19GB partition that was formerly /home for Gentoo; I have one 10GB 
> partition containing kubuntu Breezy 5.10 w/KDE-3.5.0; I have one 5GB 
> partition containing Dapper Flight4.  Both Breezy & Dapper utilize the 
> 19GB /home partition from their own respective /home/user partions via 
> symlinks to the main data directories, while each maintains its own skeleton 
> directories.  Those skeletons which are common --i.e., .gnupg, 
> moneydance,xine, etc.-- are also symlinked to the original /home partition.
>
> # fdisk -l
> Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1   *           1        2344    18828148+   7  HPFS/NTFS
> /dev/hda2            2345        2438      755055   82  Linux swap / Solaris
> /dev/hda3            2439        3655     9775552+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda4            3656        7296    29246332+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
> /dev/hda5            3656        4507     6843658+  83  Linux
> /dev/hda6            4508        7296    22402611   83  Linux
>
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