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**skunk** · Dec 13, 2009, 04:28 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Download a copy of this http://partedmagic.com/ to partition your drive.

I'm sure others will pipe in with suggestions but you should create at least one partition for your home directory and mount it as /home

**scumbag** · Dec 13, 2009, 05:25 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

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**Untitled** · Dec 13, 2009, 06:29 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

To be honest it might be quicker and easier to reinstall Kubuntu and tell the installer to use the entire hard drive since allocating 415GB to an existing partition is probably going to take hours...

In any case, to answer your questions:
1. You cannot unmount a partition you are currently using, i.e. if you log into Kubuntu you cannot unmount sda2. You will have to use a liveCD to manage your partitions. You can either use the Kubuntu liveCD (and install KDE partition manager there). You can also use something live GParted LiveCD (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php) which is a small download and quicker to load.
2. sda5 is your data partition and the one you need to resize. Not sure if you have to resize sda2 first (since sda5 is under it).

HTH

**GreyGeek** · Dec 13, 2009, 07:23 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Scoyttay,

Welcome aboard the good ship Kubuntu!

Two questions:
1) What is the model number of your HP

2) How did Win7 run for you (not asking you to bash it. Just give you think are the pros and cons)

Thanks,
GG

**scoyttay** · Dec 13, 2009, 08:02 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Hello all,

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll give the live cd a try and report back with results.

The laptop is an HP Pavilion dv7-1451nr
Seen here: -> http://www.staples.com/HP-Pavilion-d...product_800740

Windows 7 is definitely an upgrade from Vista. I don't remember the XP days.. long ago for me. The upgrade is not so much in the performance (at least not noticeably so). The upgrade is in the GUI and UAC (user account control). Everything is simpler and cleaner. The neat little addons like the snap and shake and introduction of sticky notes was cool. The easy networking and play-to was very cool. I'd recommend it over Vista.

Overall though, when windows 7 critical update made my WAMP stop working mysteriously (tried so hard to figure out what was wrong - but couldn't), I decided windows crossed the last line with me.

.. And here I am.

**GreyGeek** · Dec 13, 2009, 08:07 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Does the fingerprint feature on your HP work with Kubuntu?

**scoyttay** · Dec 13, 2009, 08:21 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

I didn't know I had a fingerprint reader LOL.

**scoyttay** · Dec 14, 2009, 02:13 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Well, I tried the ubuntu live cd using GParted (couldn't find kpartitionmanager in the software installer - i could've probably used apt-get but i don't feel comfortable enough with it).

GParted wouldn't allow me to resize the linux partition. Well, it would let me, but it would only let me resize it to the size it already is - it wouldn't let me use any unallocated space.

Going to try parted magic on a USB stick now.

**sithlord48** · Dec 14, 2009, 02:38 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

i would certianly do a reinstall unless you have a lot of data that you want to save..., also make a seperate /home partition this can be very helpful if you have to reinstall since all you settings are in /home/<usr>

**scoyttay** · Dec 14, 2009, 04:03 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

parted magic worked... magically

new partitions: http://i45.tinypic.com/el314m.jpg

No reinstall necessary... only took about an hour too, and i could browse the internet while it was doing it.. pretty awesome!

For now this is good for me. I will take your guys' advice and create a separate home partition.

Thank you all for your help.

**scoyttay** · Dec 14, 2009, 07:31 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

OK I do believe this follows along with the thread topic so no need to create a new one (please forgive me if wrong).

At first I was dual booting windows 7/kubuntu. Then, as noted above, I unallocated my windows partition and resized my ubuntu partition to fill up the whole disk.

Now I have grub still asking me which OS to boot up into. How can i remove the grub bootloader and automatically boot to my Kubuntu desktop?

**Qqmike** · Dec 14, 2009, 08:44 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Boot into your Kubuntu and at Konsole do
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
That should generate a new boot menu that excludes Windows.
Next set the Default OS to correspond to Kubuntu (probably set default=0) in the /etc/default/grub file.
And you can reduce the timeout to a low but positive value, say
set timeout=3
(seconds).

GRUB 2 A Guide for Users
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3106368.0
and drs305:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1195275

**Qqmike** · Dec 14, 2009, 09:26 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

and after editing /etc/default/grub, you have to run
sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
for the changes to be effective

**scoyttay** · Dec 14, 2009, 09:52 PM

Re: From windows 7 to kubuntu - need help with KDE Partition Manager

Wow, thank you.
I set the value to 1 and uncommented the GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT line

Now it boots straight up into kubuntu

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