Re: Gusty-Feisty-windows

Twist O'Connor wrote:

just wondering though, why would ytou want more then 1 linux/ubuntu.... i
could understand if you wanted 1 thats ubuntu and one thats like linux
straight but 2 ubuntus is kinda wierd......

Not at all. If you have to support an LTS server, and users running the
latest Ubuntu, it probably pays to have both on your system.

anyways you can... if you
have windows... setting up a partition is super easy!
right click computer in start menu... click on manage
disk usage... click on it
right click on your main partition.... prob windows'
click shrink volume and pick the size you want the extra OS to be

LOL. If it was that easy I'd have had my new HP dual-booting two days ago.
120GB disk - 8GB for HP's recovery partition, 101GB (that's all that's
actually available on a 120G drive) for Windows Vista. It's using 20 of
that. Shrink partition: it'll let me have 30! OK, uninstall all the
really big junk (almost 1GB for HP pay-to-play Games!) and turn off Virtual
Memory. Shrink partition: Wow, now I can get 40G for real work.

Mess around with that for an hour or so, no way I can get more than 40GB.

OK, then, boot into Feisty install disk, shrink partition - with intention
of reinstalling Windows on a 20G partition (still more than I really need).

Reboot, reinstall, system hangs - apparently because it insists it can
actually use the old Windows NTFS partition.

Reboot to feisty disk, delete Windows partition. Reboot, reinstall, system
hangs - apparently because it insists it can actually use the old Windows
NTFS partition.

Reboot to feisty disk, make 20G Windows FAT32 partition. Reboot, reinstall,
system spends forever verifying that it's a valid (but empty) FAT32
partition - then reformats it as NTFS and reinstalls.

Somehow it sounds so much easier now than it did last night... And I'll
almost certainly end up never using that partition...

then when you install click "guided partition... use all availible space"
there you go... piece of cake

Well, that was a whole _other_ pile of frustration. I can't say I'm
terribly impressed with Vista or Feisty right now...

I think my biggest Feisty problem is probably that they're pushing the
limits on the CD. I couldn't get a valid image on the CDs, and since it's
always the same files that show as corrupt, I think my CDs probably just
can't handle 694+ MB. I finally got smart and burned it to a DVD and it
worked flawlessly.
--
derek


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