You do need hard disk space to put a partition, say 4 gb for a minimal experimental partition, to 8 gb for a fairly useful one, to 20 gb for a full workhorse. If you don't have any space on the hard drive you either have to add a hard drive or squeeze XP down with resize.
What I did on my XP system which only had 20 gb hard drive was go into XP, defrag to make space at the top, then in settings, control panel, system, virtual memory cut out all the page space to zero. That's to get rid of a big page file at the top of memory. Then I defragged again, looked at details, and very carefully estimated how much free space there was at the top. Then directly get out of XP hopefully without causing any more files to be allocated. Boot up Ubuntu CD Live, run Gparted, then on the XP partition, I resized it down a little less than the free space I thought I had estimated. If you resize down too much XP will get ill. If you resize down just free space, XP will run O.K. usually. Then with XP resized down, with the space freed up, you can make a partition for swap, say a little larger than your memory 256 mb min, maybe 512 mb, then the rest for Ubuntu. Has to be at least 2 gb, 4 gb to do any useful work. Good luck, Jerry -- Xubuntu partitioning can fail because ubiquity does not prevent thunar from automounting new partitions https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/107259 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
