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Dual booting Ubuntu with Windows questions

post #1 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:11pm
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Hi

Is it possiable to install Ubuntu in the free space of your windows partition with out reformating and with out the use of any $$$ programs such as partition magic?
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post #2 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:12pm
i know many distros include "use free space" option but i am not sure about ubuntu. if i am not mistaken you can always use gparted to resize so you don't have to spend money.
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post #3 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:18pm
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Is Gparted in the live boot? Can you even access the Synaptic Package Manager in the live boot? I'm just asking this for a friend.
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post #4 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:47pm
whats the free space in your windows partition?

I resized partitions and stuff and worked for me... all with the ubuntu live CD if thats what you mean.
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post #5 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:53pm
I always found it easiest to use a gparted live cd set up your ext3 partition and a 2gb swap space ( i like to make it that big) then u should be fine and install to the ext3 partition.
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post #6 of 11
8/28/06 at 10:56pm
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Yeah, thats all i was wondering, if you could install ubuntu on a windows ntfs drive with out reformating and with out using any commercial software.
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post #7 of 11
8/28/06 at 11:15pm
you cannot install ubuntu on ntfs...it will not work.

ntfs has to be resized and then an ext3 or reiserfs has to be created
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post #8 of 11
8/29/06 at 11:40am
Ext3 and ReiserFS and great journaling systems. So you really would never want to use ntfs even if you could. It's better to have a fat32 share partition if you are also using windows.
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post #9 of 11
8/30/06 at 2:33pm
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Ext3 and ReiserFS and great journaling systems. So you really would never want to use ntfs even if you could. It's better to have a fat32 share partition if you are also using windows.
For shared partitions you would be correct BT, however NTFS is MUCH better than FAT32 if you are talking about a strictly windows partition(Meaning only windows needs access to it). Seablade
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post #10 of 11
8/30/06 at 5:31pm
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Originally Posted by seablade
For shared partitions you would be correct BT, however NTFS is MUCH better than FAT32 if you are talking about a strictly windows partition(Meaning only windows needs access to it).

Seablade
I should have been more specific. I meant that you should never use NTFS as your native file system in linux. Obviously for windows ntfs is 100x better than fat32. I also know that you cannot currently use ntfs as your root file system, but it's possible (from what I know the kernel developers aren't including ntfs support in fear of ms retribution).

I just wanted to make the point that ntfs isn't journaling so things get messy pretty quickly.
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post #11 of 11
8/31/06 at 10:06pm
Yep that I agree with, and was what I was fairly sure you meant, but wanted to clarify just in case

Seablade
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