Phase VI – A partition editor that works
Or:
Partition Politics
I’m getting a bit tired of fiddling with this, let’s just make it happen. Time to get on XP and get it done. Boot back into XP and fire up Partition Wizard Home Edition (free for home use, BTW). Do the same thing I tried to do in GParted, hit apply. Since it’s the partition I’m running XP off of, it wants to reboot. OK, this is reasonable. I reboot, Partition Wizard does its thing, and about 10 minutes later I have a resized partition. Finally.
Again back to the live CD boot and the hard drive install. The installer really doesn’t seem to understand unallocated space like the XP install does, so I have to choose the manual partitioning option. After a bit of trial and error, I finally get the partitions made that the installer wants and it deigns to use them. The install is off and running! Churn, churn, churn, 37%…it made it! It’s installed!
At the end of the install I turn off the machine and reboot into XP and Ubuntu in turn. They both work – at least it got that right.
Next I want to do a bit of tweaking and updating and create a new and improved live CD on my SD card. But that’s another post. Hopefully it will get past 37%…
