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Distro help. Please?
Dark_Me:
EDIT: Double post.
Dark_Me:
I am now posting from Damn Small Linux. Yay! Damn this print is small. Seems the problem was that I wasn't burning them as ISO's . I got the Ubuntu installer workng but got stuck at paritions. Can someone please guide me through?
Aloone_Jonez:
I can't remember how I did this now, what partitions on what hard drives do you currently have?
I had to resize by Windows ntfs drive to make way for a an ext3, swap and FAT32 partition to share work between Linux and Windows (although you might not want to bother with the latter since you can use some software to read ext under Windows and Linux can read ntfs - FAT32 sucks). To do this I had to defragment the existing ntfs drive, this best way to do this is in Windows, right click on the appropiet drive and click properties, select the tools tab, click on defragment, select the volume and defragment it whether Windows says it needs it or not, this might take several hours. Now you need to set up the partitions, I can't remember how in Ubuntu because I used Knoppix which has a very user friendly (I mean Windows easy) tool called Qparted.
Dark_Me:
I think that I just have one single partiontion for each drive. I'm defragging all my drives right now. How do you parition in Windows?
Aloone_Jonez:
You can partition unsed space that doesn't have any file system allocated to it just using Windows but as far as I'm aware you can't resize your current partitons, not without using some expensive 3rd party program anyway. Your best bet is to use a Linux program to do that, I personally recommend Qparted but that's because it's the only utility I have experiance with, perhapps someone else here can answer this one better than I can.
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