win vista/unbuntu

[Rutger van Haasteren]

On Dec 25, 2007 6:18 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:

> hue yang wrote:
> > hello..
> >
> > i just got a new laptop, core 2 duo centrino win
> > vista, and want to add unbuntu as a second os without
> > messing vista. is there a way i could do that?
> >
> > hue
>
> Ubuntu wants you do be able to do this too.  The installer will by
> default offer to resize your Vista partition and let you install Ubuntu
> into the newly freed space.
>
> Make sure you haven't HIBERNATED Vista before you attempt the partition
> resize, NTFS won't let you modify the partition when you've hibernated a
> Windows system.
>
> Good luck.
>
> -d
>
>
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I would recommend resizing the partition from within Vista.

Rutger
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