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installing ubuntu from cd requiring dual boot

Asked by jameswatkins

During the install from cd at screen
Prepare disk space
exactly what option should I choose to ensure dual booting?
I hve plenty of room on disc as only about 12GB iused on a single 74GB partition on hard disk

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Best Tobias Wolf (towolf) said : 		#1

Just use the "Make space by resizing" option. Vague wording from memory.
Dual boot should work, just make sure you don't tell it to erase the complete disk.

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jameswatkins (jhlaw) said : 		#2

the 3 options are
guided - resize
guided - use entire disk
manual

So to be clear which do I choose?

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Tobias Wolf (towolf) said : 		#3

That's "guided - resize" for you ;-)

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jameswatkins (jhlaw) said : 		#4

Thanks Tobias Wolf, that solved my question.