installation question

[G.]

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Traveller <traveller at petlover.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
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I would probably do it the other way, eg windows inside ubuntu.
Thanks for the suggestion!

gart