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Punk

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Hi guys!

I'd like to try different version of Linux on my laptop. What I want to do is to partition my 300GO HD into three partitions, one running my current Ubuntu installation and two other (25GB each for example) running different version of Linux. Is that possible?

I've downloaded Gparted to partition my Hard Drive, will I lose data? Also what versions of Linux do you recommend to try out?
 
If you use gparted to shrink your current partition that should be fine. Might want to do a backup first to be sure.

If you are going to try out the other *buntu variants you can just install their desktop enviroments on your ubuntu install. LDXE for Lubuntu, XFCE for Xubuntu, KDE for Kubuntu. Linux Mint would be close if you just installed cinnamon on Ubuntu as well.

other ones to try

openSUSE http://www.opensuse.org/en/

fedora http://fedoraproject.org/

this is the one that nyxcharon is working on http://adonislinux.com/

There are tons more but that is all I have really cared to try.
 
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What error does it give you? If the option is greyed out you might need to boot to a live cd and install gparted while in the live session. I would bet that you need to have the partitions unmounted for it to work.
 
salvage-this said:
What error does it give you? If the option is greyed out you might need to boot to a live cd and install gparted while in the live session. I would bet that you need to have the partitions unmounted for it to work.
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Yup that it is the problem, it is greyed out.

I'll do that in the week or next week, thanks for your help :).
 
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