>>So do I run Ubuntu from the Desktop CD, open a terminal window and type "gparted" on the command line? Or do I have to download gparted separately (gparted live CD?). Will it be tricky to understand how to use that -- I haven't used gparted before. Gparted is included in the CD, system > administration >gnome partition editor. It's dead simple, if you know your way around a partition list, it shouldn't give you any problems. >>Does the partition editor not work at all or does it damage things? The editor in the install script will tell you it completed the operations successfully, but if you go back and view the partitions, it shows that your newly created partitions are of unknown type. On 6/5/06, Mike Miller <mbmiller at taxa.epi.umn.edu> wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Jun 2006, Pete Daniels wrote: > > > 1. Don't use the partition editor in the installer. Use gparted first, > > then run install. > > I was thinking of installing Ubuntu as a second OS on a WinXP x64 machine. > So do I run Ubuntu from the Desktop CD, open a terminal window and type > "gparted" on the command line? Or do I have to download gparted > separately (gparted live CD?). Will it be tricky to understand how to use > that -- I haven't used gparted before. Can anyone recommend a good source > on how to use gparted to create a partition for Linux without messing up > Windows data? > > Does the partition editor not work at all or does it damage things? > > > > 2. The screensaver on the Live CD must be turned off before installation > > begins. (I bet some poor dev's smacking their forehead over that > > one...) > > That's an annoying bug -- thanks for figuring that out. > > Mike > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20060605/aa781fbc/attachment-0001.htm