Partitions

[Gary Kirkpatrick]

Also clean up your windows partition first, and if it's been a long time
since you reinstalled windows, now's the time to do it!  I learned this the
hard way.

Gary

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 3:35 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca>
wrote:

> Rashkae wrote:
>
> > Andrea Monaco wrote:
> >> I need to create a new partition on my computer (it has two partition:
> >> the former contains Ubuntu, the latter is the swap space) to install the
> >> Debian system.
> >>
> >> I've tried to use the partition editor (gpacked package), but when I try
> >> to unmount the root partition (to resize it) a message says me that "The
> >> partition cannot be unmounted from the / mount point. Perhaps there are
> >> other partitions with the same mount point. You should unmount them
> >> manually."
> >>
> >> How can I create a new partition to install Debian?
> >
> > Boot from a live cd that has partition editing tools.  I've often used
> > Knoppix for this task, though I think the Ubuntu install cd should have
> > you covered as well.
>
> Or create the debian install in a VM (eg Virtualbox or VMWare)...
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> derek
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