Originally posted by: Pelu
hm.. i think is am.. anyway.. any idea of how to break the harddisk in two... like two partitions with out screwing up my current installation of windows...
Gparted is a great tool for this. The problem is, it's a Linux ap, and you can't run it from Windows.
But do not despair! You can download and burn a live CD, and boot from that CD to do all your partitioning.
Here's what you want to do...
1. download the
gparted iso
2. burn the iso to a CD
3. boot from the gparted CD
4. use the gparted gui to resize your windows partition, leaving enough free space for ubuntu
PLEASE NOTE: you don't want to actually create a new partition; you just want to free up a bunch of unpartitioned space by resizing the windows partition
5. "apply" the changes you made
6. reboot into the ubuntu installer (i386)
7. when ubuntu asks you how to partition the drive, choose the "guided - use largest continuous free space" option
That's it!