Windows and Ubuntu

joh06937

joh06937

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first thread from me about a problem in a while :P

so i am in a programming class (so excited :D) and we use ubuntu 10.04 to do our code writing etc. i figured i should do some work on my own computer outside of class (duh). but i only have windows installed and didn't leave any room for anything else on my hard drive. i have 40 gb left.

1) is that enough room for ubuntu? basically only the os and "scheme."
2) what is the best way to free up room already allocated to the windows partition without losing stuff on my disk?
 
40 gigs is plenty for ubuntu even to save all your source code. As for the other question, i know there are tools that free up space and make it unallocated so you can make it a second partition, but names escape me. if you are only using ubuntu to write code, i'd suggest just using a virtual machine. That'd make that part easy.

what language are you using. why are you using ubuntu to write it?
 
using scheme.

all of our computers that we use on campus in the labs are ubuntu and the program evidently works much better with ubuntu. i figured i might as well use it. although i did have problems installing ubuntu last time around because of my 5970... if i get the problem again i'll probably post another thread or just continue with this one :P
 
if you have a second harddrive, you can clone the first one onto that, with something like gparted, reformat the first hdd, partition it, then put the clone back on it.

i've never heard of scheme. i'm taking 2 programming classes right now for python and c++
 
Troncoso said:
if you have a second harddrive, you can clone the first one onto that, with something like gparted, reformat the first hdd, partition it, then put the clone back on it.

i've never heard of scheme. i'm taking 2 programming classes right now for python and c++
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it is pretty ancient. according to today's lecture (:P) it is a functional language while most others are procedural. the u of m uses it as the first one since it is a great building block.
 
Oh, no wonder I haven't seen it then. Are you going for an information technology degree or some jazz?
 
You DO NOT have to create another partition on your HD to install Ubuntu unless you want to use Hibernate in Ubuntu. Boot into Windows, insert the Ubuntu disk, and install Ubuntu within Windows using the option on the CD so that you can uninstall it using Add/Remove Programs. Voila. No partitioning. And Ubuntu only uses 3-5 GB space, so if you give it 30 GB in the wizard you should be OK.
 
lucasbytegenius said:
You DO NOT have to create another partition on your HD to install Ubuntu unless you want to use Hibernate in Ubuntu. Boot into Windows, insert the Ubuntu disk, and install Ubuntu within Windows using the option on the CD so that you can uninstall it using Add/Remove Programs. Voila. No partitioning. And Ubuntu only uses 3-5 GB space, so if you give it 30 GB in the wizard you should be OK.
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oh wow, didn't know you could do that :eek: i'll have to give that a try.
 
And then you don't have to learn the intricacies of the GRUB bootloader, which would be installed as well if you partitioned. This way, Ubuntu is given an entry in the Windows boot manager. Also, the util is called Wubi.
 
ah so i would be able to select it during boot up? or would it be something i'd run inside of windows (something along the lines of virtualbox)? also, i burned the iso onto a disk. does the iso have wubi or is it another thing i need to download to install? i only ask because i am too lazy to just google it myself :P
 
Yes, the ISO has Wubi, that's why I told you to insert the CD :). Or you could mount the iso with a util, install it that way. It's faster. And no, it isn't like VirtualBox, you select it before Windows boots. Though you could run it in VB, it just probably be slow.
 
lucasbytegenius said:
Yes, the ISO has Wubi, that's why I told you to insert the CD :). Or you could mount the iso with a util, install it that way. It's faster. And no, it isn't like VirtualBox, you select it before Windows boots. Though you could run it in VB, it just probably be slow.
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ha ha, didn't think to just mount it :P i don't actually even have my dvd drive hooked up since it is ide and looks horrible in my case (and i am a nut about cable management). thanks dude.

+1 REP. oh wait... :P
 
Yeah I know :D...But I think it's good that we don't have rep, I've been on forums where it got horribly out of hand. And those forums were extremely small, compared to many that didn't have rep. Those were huge. But the thought counts:)
 
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