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Old 01-19-2010
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Originally Posted by Korn0474
Thanks. You and Jim both mention a dual boot setup. That's sounds like maybe a good place to start. Baby steps and all that. But you also mentioned that installing it will reformat my drive during installation. Is that true even if you configure it for dual boot?
I actually used another Linux based product Gparted on a live cd to fix that problem. I defragged my Windows install (a couple of times) rebooted into Windows and let it come all the way up. I inserted the Gparted cd, restarted and it booted into the Gparted software. This let me reduce the sized of the Windows OS drive and free up 40gb for Linux. I created a swap partition and a ext4 partition. Then I booted my Ubuntu cd and went through the install, I pointed it to the free partition and it took care of the rest. It also installed the GRUB boot loader that displays a menu ot startup to select which OS to boot. I cleaned this up a little as far as the descriptions and set the default to be Windows after 10 seconds (again for the wife) and have never looked back.

Supposedly you can shrink the drive within Windows but I could never get that to work.
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PBS(8)							    BSD System Manager's Manual 						    PBS(8)

NAME

     pbs -- general helper tool

SYNOPSIS

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DESCRIPTION

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     -dump_userdefs
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     -flush_pboard
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     -flush_userdefs
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     -flush
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HISTORY

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