Installed Linux on my laptop - impressions

[alephnull]

Soleron said:

Khuutra said:
All right, so if my computer has a single partition (which it does), I would need to first split the hard drive into two partitions, reinstall Windows on one, and then Ubuntu on the other?

 

 No; ignore Senlis - he's making it uneccessarily complicated. The Ubuntu disc will DO IT FOR YOU if you only have one Windows partition at the moment. Select "shrink main partition and use freed space" and it will create the partition without damaging Windows.

 

You both are making this unnecessarily simple. He should dd the first 512 bytes of hda to a temp file, make the necessary changes to the partition table in ed and dd it back :P