win vista/unbuntu

[debian]

On Wed, 2007-12-26 at 03:37 +0100, Rutger van Haasteren wrote:
> 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
>         
well if you get 7.10, it will have wubi on it, so you dont have to worry
about repartitioning it (atleast my cd has wubi on it and i got it from
ubuntus shipit).

note: wubi is a windows installer for ubuntu
--cj
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> I would recommend resizing the partition from within Vista.
> 
> Rutger