installation question

[Traveller]

On 10-09-03 01:52 PM, G. wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:55 PM, Deryl R. Doucette<david at pgpkeys.net>  wrote:
>> On 10-09-03 12:37 PM, J wrote:
>>> On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 10:45, Tony Pursell<ajp at princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk>  wrote:
>>>
>> [SNIP]
>>
>>
>> For my HP Compaq Presario CQ61 I had 3 primary partitions. The first was
>> a 210MB FAT16 booting partition, then the NTFS Windows 7 partition, and
>> then a 'hidden' NTFS HP Tools/Rescue/Driver/Installation files partition.
>>
>> What I did, before I just trashed all of them and installed Ubuntu 10.04
>> LTS replacing everything, was:
>>
>> FIRST TIME: Made the Windows Rescue/Installation DVD set, used the wubi
>> to 'cut' the Windows partition and make some free space and then made a
>> linux extended partition inside which I made logical root (/), home
>> (/home), and swap partitions. This gave me the 4 primaries.
>>
>>
>> SECOND TIME: Wiped out the HP Tools partition and used the free space to
>> make a linux extended partition inside which I made logical root (/),
>> home (/home), and swap partitions. After FIRST TIME, but prior to this
>> time, I'd used the rescue DVD images to set the drives back to factory
>> settings which is why this became a 'second time' hehe.
>>
>> Eventually, i decided to go straight Linux and wiped everything and used
>> the entire drive for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS  :)
>>
>> --
>> Deryl R. Doucette
>>
>>
>
> It would be a lot easier to go straight to Ubuntu.  Thanks for sharing.
>
> gary
>

Have you looked at using WUBI and installing Ubuntu "inside" Windows? 
That's how I did my first install, when I wanted to try out Linux to see 
if I liked it.