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I have the Ubuntu live CD. I want to install it. It says that I need to partition the disk. My options are:

•Resize IDE1 master, partition #1 (hda1) and use free space
•Erase entire disk: IDE1 master (hda) – 60.1 GB
•Use the largest continous freespace
•Manually edit partition table

Which should I do?
I never use my computer as it does not have an internet connection. Therefore it has very little data on it. The first option takes forever. I really don’t want to erase everything if I don’t have to. But I will, if it is needed.

I am running windows xp on my system and I just downloaded openSUSE and i’m wanting to give that a try to see if i like it, i have one partition and one hard drive is it possible to create a second partition or install 2 operating systems on a single partition? i don’t want to delete xp unless i like opensuse.

Hi,
I can’t wait to install Ubuntu onto my computer but due to the limited hard-drive space available on my laptop I was hoping to set up a partition on my external hard-drive and install Ubuntu of that…
Will that work, will it give me dual-boot options every time I start up the computer? All answers appreciated

I’ve installed both XP and Mandriva on my laptop. The D: driver had 100G overall and I gave 80G to linux. Now I wan’t to install Ubuntu and remove mandriva. How can I restore the space to XP? I tried partitionmagic, Acronis and a bunch of other tools, but didn’t work.
I know ubuntu recognizes the linux partition but I want to restore it to XP then give it to ubuntu.

I know there is a certain order of installing the OSs and that I cannot simply upgrade Windows 2000 to Windows XP Home (you can only upgrade 2000 to Windows XP Professional). I’m prepared to format the partition that Windows 2000 currently resides on, if necessary.