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'''Warning:''' The live CD is designed to be used without making any changes to your computer's hard drive, however it also comes with an option to permanently install ubuntu to your hard drive. This installation will involve making extra room on your hard drive for the installation, and should not be attempted without backing up all your important files and porn to an external drive or cd beforehand. | '''Warning:''' The live CD is designed to be used without making any changes to your computer's hard drive, however it also comes with an option to permanently install ubuntu to your hard drive. This installation will involve making extra room on your hard drive for the installation, and should not be attempted without backing up all your important files and porn to an external drive or cd beforehand. | ||
===Partitioning=== | |||
''This doesn't all apply to Apple Mac computers, as they use a newer, more advanced hard disk layout system and boot system.'' | |||
A hard disk on a PC needs to be [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_partitioning partitioned] before any operating system can be run on it. This means that the OS must lay claim to an area of hard disk space before it can be used. On most laptops, windows has created partitions taking up the entire disk. | |||
To work around this, the Ubuntu installer includes a tool to resize the existing Windows partitions to make space for it's own one. However, to use this, you need some unused space inside the Windows partition. There is also an element of risk with the resize operation (if the partition contains unforeseen errors, or if there's a power cut during install, data may be lost), so '''back up your Windows documents and files before letting the installer do this'''. (I'll add more information on this later. I'm getting food.) | |||
==But, I already have Linux installed== | ==But, I already have Linux installed== | ||