Pete Daniels wrote:
>>>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.

I had no trouble with the Ubuntu partitioner...

In Mike's case I would probably use RIP [1] (or some other LiveCD) and do ntfsresize
first before doing the install.  Note: you have to do the defrag, reboot,
chkdisk dance [2].

HTH,

--Tom

[1] http://www.tux.org/pub/people/kent-robotti/looplinux/rip/
[2] http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html