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Im gonna install Ubuntu on a comp but I need to repartition. Im confused on what this wants me to do. I clicked: manually edit partition->I selected my partiton->I selected edit my partition or whatever->and clicked yes to the agreeing thing. Now Im at a screen That wants me to change the size. Is this for my windows partition or is this for my Ubuntu partition? Im so confused!?>!>!
 
I'm not sure what program you're using (you didn't bother to tell us), but I think you need to create free space on your drive for Linux.
 
Im using the latest Ubuntu x86 installation cd. I know I need to create free space for linux thats why Im repartitioning and making a new partition. Im just confused what this screen wants me to do. Is this the size that my windows partition is going to be or is this the size that I want the linux partition to be?
 
Once you go to "manually edit partition tables" you should see your windows partition. It should say like "#1 Primary (size) ntfs". Under that there should be something that says, "Free Space". If you don't have any free space, then use a program like PartitionMagic in windows to resize your ntfs partition to make room for ubuntu.

Now once you have space, make a new partition with the free space. Make one partition (as big as you want) and choose ReiserFS for the filesystem, ReiserFS is much faster than ext3 B) . Now make another partition for your swap. Make it about 512 or 768 megabytes and for filesystem choose swap. Some people like to make a partition for the grub, the bootloader, but you don't have to, afaik. Now continue and look at your partition table. Under your ntfs partition you should see something like "#2 Primary (space) ReiserFS /" and "#3 Primary (space) swap swap". Now finish partitioning and continue.
 
Some installers will resize FAT and NTFS for you. Many live CD distros can do it as well. Use QTparted.
 
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