Matt

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    Taking The Step

    Hi shanenin, thanks for the help. I would like to ask for a little more, uh, n00bish explanation of this part though. What do you mean "open up a terminal"? I have used knoppix, but only a few times, and that is my only linux experience. heh, I also don't know what su commands are, or how to change to root with them. (I do know what root is though, yay!) You also say "just click on your partition you want to resize, then under operations choose resize. It will ask you the new size you want it. If it gives you the option, choose leave new space as unallocated(free space). It may not ask,
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  3. Hello all! I have fianlly downloaded Ubuntu linux, and I am eager to load it onto my machine. But before I do that, I would like some of my worries to be out of the way. Any help in the following matters would be greatly appreciated. I am currently running WinXP (Home Ed) and I want to keep this, and all my files intact. So, I guess I have to partition. I have never partitioned before, and this idea seems a little scary. I don't want to have to buy PartitionMagic, or anything like that. I am under the impressiong that Ubuntu comes with a tool that will partition the HDD for you. Am I c
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