[19:14] <sileni> hey
[19:14] <sileni> i bought the hp mini 1000 and it came preloaded with xp
[19:14] <vimpulse> sileni:  please state your whole problem on one long long line.
[19:14] <vimpulse> :)
[19:15] <sileni> i want to dual boot ubuntu so i downloaded ubuntu 8.10 into the 2 gb usb drive and started the installer.. when it came to the partition part it won't let me resize the windows xp partition. I have 15.6 gb total disk space and xp already takes up 6 GB so i thought i would let xp have 8gb and the rest would go for ubuntu. Can someone help me get through this ?
[19:15] <sileni> sorry for posting in 3 lines
[19:16] <vimpulse> sileni:  it's ok.
[19:25] <sileni> dang
[19:25] <sileni> i didnt even know i lost connection
[19:25] <vimpulse> sileni:  you didn't.
[19:25] <vimpulse> sileni:  ask in #ubuntu for faster response.  warning:  it's busy.
[19:25] <sileni> ok
[21:06] <sileni> vimpulse: hey
[21:06] <sileni> vimpulse: you there bro?
[21:06] <vimpulse> sileni:  yep
[21:06] <sileni> i fininally figured out why i couldn't partition
[21:06] <vimpulse> sileni:  [ in #ubuntu you must repeat your question every 5 min.  were you?  :) ]
[21:06] <vimpulse> sileni:  why not?
[21:06] <sileni> vimpulse: for some reason i needed to run something called checkdsk
[21:07] <vimpulse> sileni:  did ubuntu not tell you that??
[21:07] <sileni> vimpulse: after i did that in xp
[21:07] <sileni> vimpulse: no ubuntu told me nothing i just found an article on google
[21:07] <sileni> vimpulse: now i resized the partitions to make the xp partition be 8.6 GB and 7.7 gb is freed up for linux
[21:07] <vimpulse> sileni:  that is a problem with ubuntu - bad reporting.  you should complain.
[21:07] <sileni> vimpulse: can you please tell me what parittions i need to make on that 7.7
[21:08] <vimpulse> sileni:  you have 2 gb ram right?
[21:08] <sileni> vimpulse: only one :-\
[21:08] <sileni> 16 gb ssd 1 gb ram
[21:08] <sileni> this computer has 5 gb ram so i can run heavy apps on here
[21:08] <vimpulse> sileni:  what IDE are you gonna run?
[21:08] <vimpulse> on linux
[21:08] <sileni> vimpulse: right now i just use g++ in terminal. i don't know about future classes yet
[21:09] <vimpulse> sileni:  g++ is fine with 1GB RAM
[21:09] <vimpulse> sileni:  how many web browser tabs you ever have open at once?
[21:09] <sileni> like 5 max
[21:09] <vimpulse> sileni:  make it all one big / partition, plus a 512MB swap partition at the end.
[21:10] <vimpulse> sileni:  if programs crash "Out of Memory", expand the swap partition.
[21:10] <sileni> ok
[21:10] <sileni> but don't need home?
[21:10] <vimpulse> sileni:  it's tough to make these decisions on such a small netbook.
[21:10] <vimpulse> sileni:  you can have a separate home partition if you want.
[21:10] <sileni> vimpulse: yes i would liek that
[21:10] <sileni> how big does a root partition have to be ?
[21:11] <vimpulse> sileni:  make 5.2 gb /, then 2 gb home, then rest swap
[21:11] <sileni> ok
[21:11] <sileni> thank you so much
[21:11] <vimpulse> sileni:  glad to help.
[21:12] <sileni> it should be ext3 right?
[21:12] <vimpulse> yeah
[21:14] <sileni> ok so i have 5.1 gb / ...2 gb /home and 526 mb swap ... that fills it and root and /home are both ext3
[21:14] <sileni> does that sound right?
[21:14] <vimpulse> sileni:  yep
[21:14] <vimpulse> sileni:  stop worrying and just click "Go".
[21:15] <sileni> ehhe
[21:16] <sileni> hopefully everything will end up nice
[21:16] <vimpulse> sileni:  newbie tips:
[21:17] <vimpulse> sileni:  1.  never reinstall Linux.  you can always fix things without reinstalling.
[21:17] <sileni> vimpulse: ok
[21:17] <vimpulse> sileni:  2.  never download software off the web.  Always use Start menu > Add/Remove which downloads and installs for you quickly and easily
[21:17] <vimpulse> sileni:  3.  gaim is MSN Messenger
[21:17] <sileni> well i liked pidgin it takes care of everything ><
[21:18] <vimpulse> sileni:  oops, i meant pidgin not gaim