In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

Alrighty, so I'm trying to dual boot and I've got to do some really funkey crap to do this. The end result is I wans Ubuntu and Vista on my machine. Unfortunately I apparently only have non-bootable ...