Install Help

[Derek Broughton]

Chris Rees wrote:

>> Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com> schrieb:
>>
>> Fazil.Saiyed at anixter.com wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>> I plan on using Ubantu on 64 AMD Dell machine, can you tell me what if
>>> any will happen to my Boot menu for Windows Vista and the partition ?
>>> Are there any install instructions ?
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>    Well it depends how you plan to do things. I assume your Vista has
>> 100% of the hard drive right now. How big is your hard drive? Before you
>> install Ubuntu defrag the windows. If you destroy any windows it will
>> stop working. Most people have zero problems with loading from a LiveCD.
>>
> Karl is right, but you should use Vista's built-in partition
> shrinking. The only people who _really_ know about NTFS are up at
> Redmond, and have finally provided a tool (the first AFAIK since DOS
> 1.0 :P) to shrink partitions.

otoh, Vista's partition-shrinking tool won't shrink it as far as possible. 
I couldn't get my vista partition under about 32GB, so I finally deleted
it, created a 20GB partition, and then reinstalled into that.  
-- 
derek