Removing Vista in Favour of Ubuntu (Sam Albers)

Sat Jun 7 03:59:41 UTC 2008

Actually you could just make sure that you backup the recovery disc for Vista just in case. If you really want to resize it you could do it by  using Ubuntu's LiveCD, open a terminal and type "sudo gparted". You'll be able to resize vista there.

Once you've done that then installing Ubuntu on the entire computer is easy. When you are installing Ubuntu and reach the partition stage, just click on the "Use entire disk" portion and Ubuntu will be installed on the entire computer.

Justin

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> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 09:34:33 -0700
> From: "Sam Albers" <tonightsthenight at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Removing Vista in Favour of Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Sam Albers:
> > Hi there. After fruitless searching over the interweb I am turning here.
> > I am going to install Ubuntu but I would also like to remove Vista. Can
> > anyone suggest the best way of going about this? I understand how to
> > install Ubuntu but I can't seem to figure out how to remove Vista. I
> > have a new laptop so it actually contains very few files so wiping the
> > system clean is definitely an option. Should I install Ubuntu before or
> > after I wipe the Vista out of my life? Any links or advice would be much
> > appreciated. Thanks!
> >
> > Sam
> >
> > "Last November, an Iowa voter asked if he, unlike Bill Clinton,
> > had inhaled. Mr. Obama looked puzzled. 'I never understood that line,'
> > he said. 'The point was to inhale.'"
> >
> 
> 
> - do not delete vista. Yep! I recommend it.
> 
> just leave it very small size on your hard drive.
> 
> OK. I see your point with Vista. Makes sense I suppose. However, I not
> really sure what you mean by "leave it very small size". How do I reduce it
> to small size? I thought that it was all or nothing. Thanks for your help!
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> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:47:54 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: problem with xen 3.2 in hardy
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 06/06/2008 12:09 AM, Tomoki Taniguchi wrote:
> > i am upgrading my xen servers from gutsy to hardy.
> > i have done clean reinstalls.
> > 
> > i have found that hardy with xen3.2 has some real problems still.
> > for one i can't seem to get a domU to boot if the disk is a loopback
> > file.  i can at least get an lvm domU to start the boot process.
> > 
> > i get this error on both amd64 and i386 hardy servers.
> > 
> > Error: Device 51713 (vbd) could not be connected. losetup /dev/loop1
> > /xen/local/domains/test-hardy/swap.img failed
> > 
> > anyone know how to fix this?
> > 
> > TIA,
> > Tomoki
> > 
> 
> I do not use xen, but I found this w/reference to loop:
> http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu-8.04-server-install-xen-from-ubuntu-repositories
> 
> 
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> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 18:52:31 +0200
> From: Nils Kassube <kassube at gmx.net>
> Subject: Re: Removing Vista in Favour of Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Sam Albers wrote:
> > OK. I see your point with Vista. Makes sense I suppose. However, I not
> > really sure what you mean by "leave it very small size". How do I
> > reduce it to small size? I thought that it was all or nothing. Thanks
> > for your help!
> 
> There is an option inside Vista to resize the partition. But I can't tell 
> you exactly where because I don't have Vista.
> 
> 
> Nils
> 
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> Message: 4
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:52:07 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu 8.04 LTS installation on ServerWorks failed to
> 	read CD-ROM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 06/03/2008 11:34 PM, John Mok wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I tried to install 8.04 LTS server on Tyan S2518 motherboard :-
> > 
> > - ServerWorks ServerSet III LE chipset
> > - Dual PIII CPU 1.26 GHz
> > - 3 GB RAM
> > - IDE CD-ROM
> > 
> > The installation  continued without problems, until the steps of reading 
> > installer components from CD-ROM. The installation stopped and  prompted 
> > an error of "failing to read from CD-ROM....". I tried the options to 
> > disable ACPI and the problem remained the same.
> > 
> > The installation process of 6.02.2 LTS server on the same server 
> > completed without any problem. Can anyone advise what went wrong and how 
> > I can install 8.04 LTS server successfully?
> > 
> > Thank you,   John Mok
> > 
> > 
> 
> Perhaps it is this:
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyHeron/Beta
> [see the section Caveats]
> <quote>
> #
> 
> The kernel in this beta is unable to access CD-ROM devices in some
> configurations, which may prevent users who were previously able to
> install Ubuntu from installing this beta from CD media. As a workaround,
> users can boot the installer with the additional "all_generic_ide" boot
> option or switch the device from Master to Slave with jumpers. [WWW]
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/181561
> </quote>
> 
> 
> 
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> Message: 5
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 19:14:00 +0200
> From: "Johnny Rosenberg" <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Problems w/ Kernels on Hardy
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
> 	<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> 2008/6/6, Shannon McMackin <smcmackin at gmail.com>:
> >
> > chris wrote:
> > > Marius,
> > >
> > > thank you so very much for the commands below.  They worked like a charm.
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 6:06 AM, Marius Gedminas <marius at pov.lt> wrote:
> > >> At the moment when you're seeing this, do you still have
> > >> linux-image-2.6.24-16-generic (and -17-generic) installed?  From the
> > >> error messages it would seem that you don't, but apt shouldn't have
> > >> allowed that to happen.
> > >
> > > No... they are no longer installed.  I needed to free up space on my
> > > /boot to get -18 installed so I had removed -16.  Then -18 installed
> > > fine.  But then I figured I didn't need -17 so removed it as well..
> > > and then these errors cropped up.
> > >
> > > I'll head over to launchpad and enter something.  I wasn't exaclty
> > > sure if I hit a bug or if it was self induced due to me being stupid.
> > >
> > > I'm trying to recreate on a vm but having no luck so I'm leaning more
> > > towards I was being stupid and I'm not remembering something I've
> > > done.
> > >
> >
> > Chris,
> >
> > As a rule of thumb, I try to keep a current available kernel and the 1
> > previous working kernel, just in case something goes awry...
> >
> > My own rule of thumb is more like that I keep the latest Live-CD in case
> anything should go wrong. In fact I keep all of them. Besides I have another
> computer as well with which I can burn a new one if the current ones don't
> work.
> 
> And I always take backups of my own files. I do that to a USB HDD. That way
> I make it done. If I made backups to DVD I would probably usually just don't
> do it, because of the inconvenience: Looking for an empty DVD or erasing a
> DVD+RW, and it takes too long time to copy all the files to it and I would
> need several of them etc etc. Now I just wrote a few scripts which I run by
> just clicking an icon, and a few seconds or minutes later the backup is
> done.
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> Message: 6
> Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:39:44 -0700
> From: Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com>
> Subject: Re: scripting fun
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support,	not for general discussions"
> 	<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
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> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 18:06 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
> >     Python, Ruby, Perl, all better suited to this task simply because you
> > don't have to worry about the shell doing something wicked with your data as
> > it streams hither and yon.
> 
> I agree. When I get beyond a 3 stage pipeline, I generally will write
> something in Perl because I have much finer control in a procedural
> language.  However, for quick and dirty task, it is hard to beat the
> shell with its built in access to the underlying process creation,
> pipelining and I/O redirection mechanism of the operating system.
> Remember, the Unix philosophy is to write simple tools which can be
> pipelined together to perform more complex tasks.
> 
> -- 
> Smoot Carl-Mitchell
> System/Network Architect
> smoot at tic.com
> +1 480 922 7313
> cell: +1 602 421 9005
> 
> 
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> Message: 7
> Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 02:48:26 +0900
> From: Michael Sotnikov <astar at tut.by>
> Subject: Re: Removing Vista in Favour of Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <g2bt96$s6n$1 at ger.gmane.org>
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> Nils Kassube:
> > Sam Albers wrote:
> >> OK. I see your point with Vista. Makes sense I suppose. However, I not
> >> really sure what you mean by "leave it very small size". How do I
> >> reduce it to small size? I thought that it was all or nothing. Thanks
> >> for your help!
> > 
> > There is an option inside Vista to resize the partition. But I can't tell 
> > you exactly where because I don't have Vista.
> 
> You can resize windows partition with built-in tools. Check it:
> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk 
> Management
> 
> 
> But, as i remember vista wants to leave it 20gig minimum (smth. like that)
> On other hand - you can resize its partition with ubuntu's installer. 
> For me it worked perfect (when i was installing ubuntu first time on 
> laptop) but some guys over internet says it could be dangerous =).
> 
> 

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