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  1. Techdisk Techdisk

    I say scwoo wubi. I use a live USB and gparted. Ive installed linux on 4 or 5 computers, and ive reinstalled it multiple times on some of them. The reinstall was mostly to try diffrent features, and never because it just didnt work.

    Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:31:19 UTC from web
    1. Omni Omni

      @techdisk42 Partitioning always is the better solution, but scary to a lot of users.

      Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:32:19 UTC from web
      1. Techdisk Techdisk

        @omni it was scary to me at first, and is still scary to me every single time i click install, but it always ends up working fine.

        Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:33:11 UTC from web
        1. Omni Omni

          @techdisk42 With Gparted it's not scary, the default Arch Linux formatting tool, fdisk, is a lot more scary though.

          Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:34:37 UTC from web
          1. Toksyuryel Toksyuryel

            @omni I find gparted far scarier than fdisk. After it glitched on me and wiped out all the data on a drive I was partitioning with it, I no longer trust it at all. fdisk is remarkably mature by comparison.

            Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:35:58 UTC from web
          2. Techdisk Techdisk

            @omni Personally, i use a live USB with puppy linux or ubuntu or something to partiton, then switch to the actual distro i want when everything is in order. Kinda funny that the live USB of ubuntu comes with gparted, but the install it puts on your system doesnt.

            Monday, 16-Jul-12 21:37:15 UTC from web