RogueHart Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 im trying to find a guide to partitioning my hdd without completely erasing my data. i want to partition off about 15gigs of my hdd for a linux distro. i wont need more than that since ill just be doing development and coding. but i have no idea how i would go about that. ive got ubuntu burned to a cd and ready to use. can anyone help me out? im trying to dual boot vista and linux(trying ubuntu first) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signal9 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 You want to create another cd containing GParted (gnu partition editor). You can resize your existing partitions (as long as you have 15g free space), and create the required parts. Just be careful, during the Ubuntu install there will be a question as to how you want to partition, do it manually and select the partitions you created previously. You can even create a mountpoint (directory where you can access your Windows partition/files from within Ubuntu), from that dialog. It's not difficult, just be careful to read the prompts carefully before you click through. Good luck. (Just an FYI, you want to create two partitions in addition to your Fat32/NTFS, a linux native (preferably EXT2 or EXT3) and a swap partition which should be twice as large as how much RAM your system has - 512Mb of RAM, Swap Partition of 1Gb). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 im trying to find a guide to partitioning my hdd without completely erasing my data. i want to partition off about 15gigs of my hdd for a linux distro. i wont need more than that since ill just be doing development and coding. but i have no idea how i would go about that. ive got ubuntu burned to a cd and ready to use. can anyone help me out? im trying to dual boot vista and linux(trying ubuntu first) See if ubuntu has Gparted, or some other partition editor. Unmount your HHD and run the partition editor. Resize the partition. format the space where you want ubuntu to sit on your hhd Run the Installer When asked where to install choose the space you just made and let ubuntu set up the rest of the partitions. Your done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signal9 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 See if ubuntu has Gparted, or some other partition editor. Unmount your HHD and run the partition editor. Resize the partition. If you'd rather do it from the Ubuntu Cd, as DingleBerries suggests, from the command-line: sudo umount /dev/hda1 Should unmount your HDD. If you use the gparted live iso, you won't have to bother with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 If you'd rather do it from the Ubuntu Cd, as DingleBerries suggests, from the command-line: sudo umount /dev/hda1 Should unmount your HDD. If you use the gparted live iso, you won't have to bother with that. Did we all forget that Ubuntu has a very convenient "Auto Resize and auto partition" button? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DingleBerries Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Did we all forget that Ubuntu has a very convenient "Auto Resize and auto partition" button? Listen to this man. Hes legit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
signal9 Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Did we all forget that Ubuntu has a very convenient "Auto Resize and auto partition" button? Yes. Yes I did. /me goes off to sulk. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Did we all forget that Ubuntu has a very convenient "Auto Resize and auto partition" button? now i just hope i can do this without screwing up lol. ive got a lot of work on this new laptop already that i can neither backup or afford to lose. hopefully by the days end ill be dual booting vista and ubuntu i guess ill learn a lot today lol. i used to think partitioning was like creating a virtual drive. so i could treat it as a seperate os and act as if the laptop had 2 hdd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shido Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Rogue check your messages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWFu Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Acronis Disk Director Suite works pretty well from windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 thanks guys. after trying ubuntu(had no idea it was a live cd as well 0.o) im going to look at a few more distros before i settle on a specific one. trying to find something geared more towards programming, video and image editing, ect, ect. just a general development platform lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted October 27, 2008 Share Posted October 27, 2008 Ubuntu is fairly generic. You can make it do any thing you want... like any distribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RogueHart Posted October 27, 2008 Author Share Posted October 27, 2008 Ubuntu is fairly generic. You can make it do any thing you want... like any distribution. i did only give it a quick look. after ive got a lil more time ill check it out again but for now i have to go lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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