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Soleron on 12 March 2009
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Khuutra said:
Senlis said:
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.

Listen to Soleron, he knows more about the process than I do.

You guys say this, and I've gone through the picture tutorials to show where the option should pop up, but that option is not there for me, for some reason. All I can do is either use the whole disc in a guided way or manually use the whole disc.

Right. You'll have to do it manually, but you still don't have to reinstall. Boot up the LiveCD, go to System -> Adminstration -> Partition Manager or something like that, and it'll bring up GParted.

Select the Windows partition and shrink it (should be fairly obvious; if you see something not right then don't do it) to a size that will leave it with a few GB left over. Then create two new partitions filling the blank space, one about 4GB and one filling the rest of the space. Select "apply" and it will make the changes.

Then when you use the installer, select manual. Select the large partition as "/" and the small partition as "swap". Make sure it's only going to change those two partitions and not ouch your Windows one.