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Operating Systems Linux Ubuntu XP and Linux (Ubuntu) on same disk, Can I install Ubuntu on not-yet partitioned portion of disk? Post 302363608 by C.Weidemann on Tuesday 20th of October 2009 06:22:28 PM

10-20-2009

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XP and Linux (Ubuntu) on same disk, Can I install Ubuntu on not-yet partitioned portion of disk?

My PC (Esprimo, 3 yeas old) has one hard drive having 2 partitions C: (80 GB NTFS, XP) and D: (120 GB NTFS, empty) and and a 200 MB area that yet is not-partitioned.

I would like to try Ubuntu and to install Ubuntu on the not-partitioned area . The idea is to have the possibility to run the computer as a double boot PC.

Is that possible to achieve this? Any disadvantages?
The description of the Ubuntu installation process mentions that this process can partition empty drives for a pure Ubuntu installation or can split a Windows partition in order to be able to install
Ubuntu on the newly created partition. It does not mention if there is an option to install Ubuntu in an not partitioned portion of a disk holding a Window system .

(I am a newcomer to Linux and have run Ubuntu 9.04 from the DVD-drive of the Esprimo computer but have not installed the Linux files on the harddrive yet. Ubuntu is installed on another, 10 years old, slow PC)

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what-patch

WHAT-PATCH(1)                                                 General Commands Manual                                                WHAT-PATCH(1)

NAME

       what-patch - detect which patch system a Debian package uses

SYNOPSIS

       what-patch [options]

DESCRIPTION

       what-patch examines the debian/rules file to determine which patch system the Debian package is using.

       what-patch should be run from the root directory of the Debian source package.

OPTIONS

       Listed below are the command line options for what-patch:

       -h, --help
              Display a help message and exit.

       -v     Enable verbose mode.  This will include the listing of any files modified outside or the debian/ directory and report any additional
              details about the patch system if available.

AUTHORS

       what-patch was written by Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>, Siegfried-A. Gevatter <rainct@ubuntu.com>, and  Daniel  Hahler  <ubuntu@thequod.de>,
       among others.  This manual page was written by Jonathan Patrick Davies <jpds@ubuntu.com>.

       Both are released under the GNU General Public License, version 3 or later.

SEE ALSO

       The Ubuntu MOTU team has some documentation about patch systems at the Ubuntu wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems

       cdbs-edit-patch(1), dbs-edit-patch(1), dpatch-edit-patch(1)

DEBIAN                                                           Debian Utilities                                                    WHAT-PATCH(1)