hi

[James Takac]

Hi Collin

On Thursday 02 September 2010 23:14:08 Colin Law wrote:
> On 2 September 2010 13:47, Parshwa Murdia <ubuntu.bkn at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 6:06 PM, Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> It is up to you, you can replace the existing system if you want to,
> >> or if you have space you can shrink the existing partitions and
> >> install Ubuntu as a third boot option.  Make sure you back up
> >> everything important first of course.
> >
> > I am having 250 GB in all but 150 GB is for Windows which is having many
> > useful softwares (right now). So for me, the only possible option would
> > be to use the 100 GB space in which I have Fedora 11, replacing that and
> > installing Ubuntu would be okay. But if I am replacing that only, in that
> > case also, should I take Windows back-up?
>
> You should always have a backup of anything important.  A disk may go
> up in smoke at any moment.  In particular when doing things like
> installing Ubuntu it is always possible to click the wrong button and
> overwrite your windows partition.  I forget exactly what the
> installation screen is like but *do not* say Install Side By Side with
> existing OS, instead you have to go to an advanced setup where you can
> explicitly say which partition you want to re-format and install
> Ubuntu on.  If in any doubt then ask for further help when you have
> seen exactly what are the options.
>
> Ubuntu will install and run perfectly well in 10Gig by the way, though
> you will not have a huge amount of space for saving videos and so on.
> The OS itself is less than 5 I think.  So if you just want to try it
> you could shrink one of your existing partitions.
>
> Colin

What I've done in similar instances was to first boot into the live cd and use 
it's partition editor to wipe the partitions I was no longer going to use. 
Then go back to the install phase and tell it to use the free space on the 
drive. That's always worked for me

James