Installing 20.04 beside Windows?

[Karl Auer]

On Sat, 2020-06-27 at 21:32 -0700, Dave Stevens wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jun 2020 14:20:24 +1000
> Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
> > Is there a way to resize the Windows partition down to (say) 60 GB
> > and install Ubuntu?
> > 
> why not do it in two steps Karl? use gparted to resize to 60 then do
> the 20.04 install.

So boot the LiveCD, use gparted to resize the Windows partition, then
install Ubuntu in the remaining space? Sounds very plausible.

There are various other partitions there - 1MB of free space, 272MB of
EFI partition, a 16MB "unknown", the Windows NTFS partition, and 1048MB
of NTFS. The two NTFS partitions are allegedly empty :-) There doesn't
seem to be the usual hidden recovery partition unless they can fit it
all into 1GB.

Not sure how Ubuntu will go adding itself to the boot loader, but I'll
give it a go :-)

Regards, K.


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