Installing 20.04 beside Windows?

[Dave Stevens]

On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:20:24 +1000
Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:

> I have a new laptop, with Win10 installed on it. I would like to
> install Ubuntu 20.04 while keeping Windows bootable.
> 
> When I installed 15.10 I seem to recall that Ubuntu had an option to
> resize the Windows partition and install Ubuntu in the remaining
> space. 20.04 doesn't seem to offer that. It recognises that Windows
> Boot Manager is installed though.
> 
> Is there a way to resize the Windows partition down to (say) 60 GB and
> install Ubuntu? If it's not easy to do, then I will just overwrite
> Windows, I think.
> 
> Regards, K.

why not do it in two steps Karl? use gparted to resize to 60 then do the
20.04 install.

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