Prepping dual boot for 9.10!

[saffakanera]

Hi guys!

So ive got an NTFS only installation of XP sp3 black, what sort of partition software would you recommend I use in order to prep my drive for an ext4 installation!


Thanks in advance!

 

[RSkeens]

You can use the Ubuntu installer's partitioner, should be just fine.

 

[d0b33]

Personally I've stopped partitioning, I disconnect my windows drive, install linux to a another drive when complete I reconnect the windows drive and if I want to boot the linux or the windows drive I use the bios boot selection.

Fail safe.

 

[milomak]

I trust gparted to do a job and I have used many times to move/resize ntfs partitions. But being that as it may, if you are unfamiliar with Linux tools I would suggest a Windows partitioning program. Acronis used to be a favourite of mine.

 

[saffakanera]

I trust gparted to do a job and I have used many times to move/resize ntfs partitions. But being that as it may, if you are unfamiliar with Linux tools I would suggest a Windows partitioning program. Acronis used to be a favourite of mine.

Awesome, thanks bro

 

[saffakanera]

eish, 100mb, think ill use Gparted for now! Shouldnt be too much of a mission I wager!

 

[foozball3000]

Personally I've stopped partitioning, I disconnect my windows drive, install linux to a another drive when complete I reconnect the windows drive and if I want to boot the linux or the windows drive I use the bios boot selection.

Fail safe.

I do the same... the only problem is that when installing another Linux Distribution, it messes up the HDD addresses in the GRUB. It's a quick fix, but still annoying.

hd0 - Win XP
hd1 - Ibex, Jaunty, Mint
hd2 - Backup drive

 

[Bule]

Just run Wizard from Ubuntu install and select side by side option

 

[ph4t3]

Personally I've stopped partitioning, I disconnect my windows drive, install linux to a another drive when complete I reconnect the windows drive and if I want to boot the linux or the windows drive I use the bios boot selection.

Fail safe.

I never thought of that. After all my grub problems!! Where have you been all my life.

 

[phiber]

Quite sure it install grub to first boot device, so need to disconnect, just change boot order.

 

[garethmcc]

eish, 100mb, think ill use Gparted for now! Shouldnt be too much of a mission I wager!

Nononononon .. no need. Take a deep breath and stop what you are doing!

All you need is the partitioning system that is used in the Ubuntu installer. Pop the CD into your drive, restart, go into the installation system and the installer will let you set the partitions the way you want, either automatically by installing itself side-by-side with Windows with no intervention needed by you, or you can manually resize partitions as well. It will also automatically create a boot menu with grub to let you choose Windows or Ubuntu to boot into after POST.

Linux has awesome support for NTFS these days and to go and pre-prepare for multi-boot is silly when there are great tools already included in your installer.

 

[Mouse]

Can anyone recommend a free app to clone my Windows 7 partition onto another drive? I have a spare 80GB sata drive that I want to move all my OS partitions to. At the moment I only have Win7 installed on a 20GB partition and want to install the latest Ubuntu on another partition on the 80GB drive.

 

[garethmcc]

Can anyone recommend a free app to clone my Windows 7 partition onto another drive? I have a spare 80GB sata drive that I want to move all my OS partitions to. At the moment I only have Win7 installed on a 20GB partition and want to install the latest Ubuntu on another partition on the 80GB drive.

Run with both drives in your machine? All you would need to do is set your BIOS to boot from the drive with Ubuntu on it after installing and your home free