Installing to an alreasy partitioned Hard drive

[sussexer]

My Hard drive is partitioned into 2 parts The first half has Win XP installed . The second half is empty I one article I have read it said Unmount all partitions before I start .Is this right ? or can I leave the WinXP partition alone and just Divide up the second half to take the Root Swap And home partitions. Will it leave the windows bit alone?

Sorry if it seems a bit of a basic question .I am very new to Linux and have been indoctrinated with Windows for a few years.
Will appreciate any help
cheers
Sussexer

[dibl]

Re: Installing to an alreasy partitioned Hard drive

There's a lot of good information here for ex-Windows guys getting ready to slice up their hard drives:

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning

If you are installing Kubuntu from a live CD, it will handle the unmounting and mounting issues automatically -- you do not need to be concerned about it. A larger concern is to protect your data by using the separate /home partition, as explained, so if you have a need to re-install the Linux system, or if it breaks, your data will not be affected.

HTH

[sussexer]

Re: Installing to an alreasy partitioned Hard drive

The one thing holding me up from Installing Now Is . My hard drive is partitioned into 2 parts with WIN XP on the first part . Should I delete the partition so that it is Just one with XP installed .OR is it safe to just go ahead and install on the EMPTY partition . >can someone please put me straight as I dont want to loose XP until I am a bit better with Kubuntu .
cheers
sussexer