Install ubuntu next to Windows?

[iodine at runbox.no]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Mike McGinn wrote:
  >> Here is a related (I hope question):
>> Let's say I buy a laptop with Vista and repartition it and install Ubuntu. Can 
>> I run the existing Vista install in a virtual machine? I am becoming the new 
>> treasurer for my church, and sadly there is some stuff that has to be done in 
>> Windows.
>   
>     I have done this lately. I have a new laptop with Vista installed. 
> The way it was put on the 160 GB hard drive it took the whole thing! I 
> had the Vista partition as /dev/sda1 and the rescue at /dev/sda2. Now 
> dev/sda1 was 130GB of which Vista was using 10 GB.
> 
>     So the first step was to load the liveCD and use the partitioner to 
> take 120 GB from /dev/sda1 which it did leaving 10 GB. Vista works fine.
> 
>     But now you need to move /dev/sda2 next to /dev/sda1 which it will 
> do but it takes a long time. When done you have 120 GB of free space. 
> Put your Linux there.

I think he meant how he could transfer the installed Vista into
a virtual machine. That means running it in VMWare or Virtualbox
or some such.

AFAIK, VMWare has tools to do this, but they are not free.

-- 
Odd