On 12/21/2007 07:47 AM, Chris Arnold wrote: >> >> > Do you know if the recovery partition is the first or last partition? > You could find this either in Windows in the Logical Volume Manager, or > through a live cd boot disk. If you want to be sure, I would recommend > the gparted live cd, which will let you resize your Windows NTFS > partition an add your necessary partitions for Linux, from which you > could install 10.3 with great confidence. You can specify within the > install exactly how and where it will install. Changing around the > partitioning (and even formatting) within gparted (gui frontend to > libparted IIANM) is quite intuitive and comfortable if you have some > idea what you are doing. HTH. > > > According to the windoze logical volume manager, it appears to be the last > partition > > > In that case, I would definitely (if it were me) use the gparted live cd to make sure exactly what was happening, shrink the first partition, create a swap partition, then a logical containing 2 logical drives for / and /home, and then install 10.3 specifying those. I would also go ahead and format with gparted, but during 10.3 install let it format to be sure. This should not cause a problem with the recovery partition (which is usually a FAT partition with a specific partition code). With it being at the end, I would prefer to see exactly what I was doing, which is easier with gparted than the installer. HTH.
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