Re: [Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-15 Thread Arun Khan
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:41 AM, S Suresh sureshkumar...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, i have only one partition in my harddrive. completely used by ubuntu. What is the size of your hard disk copy/paste out put of sudo fdisk -l Can i reduce the partition size ? Depending upon the size

Re: [Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-15 Thread Guruprasad
Hi, On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:41 AM, S Suresh sureshkumar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am in need to install multiple linux distros to my laptop. Currently i am using Ubuntu. It is good for Desktop users. But some of the libraries (latest version) required for SW development are missing

Re: [Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-15 Thread S Suresh
Hi All, What is the size of your hard disk copy/paste out put of sudo fdisk -l 140GB Can i reduce the partition size ? Depending upon the size of the hard disk and the number of distros you wish to install; you need to do some planning **before** you jump to gparted as others

[Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-14 Thread S Suresh
Hi All, I am in need to install multiple linux distros to my laptop. Currently i am using Ubuntu. It is good for Desktop users. But some of the libraries (latest version) required for SW development are missing in the ubuntu repository . So i am thinking installing fedora . But i dont want to

Re: [Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-14 Thread Sahil ModGill
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:41 AM, S Suresh sureshkumar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, I am in need to install multiple linux distros to my laptop. Currently i am using Ubuntu. It is good for Desktop users. But some of the libraries (latest version) required for SW development are missing in

Re: [Ilugc] Multiple distros installation in single harddrive

2013-07-14 Thread Saket Sinha
Can i reduce the partition size ? Yes, you can, use Gparted. But read the documentation. Gparted is the ideal tool to be used for such a situation. Regards, Saket Sinha On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:48 AM, Sahil ModGill scorpionking.sa...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 10:41