live cd from canonical is slick, lots of things working, so I want to install on amd athlon 64 bit. Got 120gb free in winxp setup and want to shrink Mr. Gates. Tried auto and manual and if it responds at all it says cannot clear enough space for install. If someone could help me out, I'd appreciate it.

My personal reccomendation would be to download the live cd of Gnome Partition Editor. You can check it out at: http://gparted.sourceforge.net

I had trouble using the gnome-partition editor that is included with dapper, but when I used the live cd everything worked out great.

Thanks for the suggestion. Sounds like we're on to something good. On another site the same suggestion was made. I'm getting gparted right now.

I second vital's suggestion. Version 3.0 even lets you move partitions around, it's awesome.

I'm installed now, though the solution was really unexpected. I did a dkschk at restart in winxp and it found several problems including 100+mg of 75-80 orphan file fragments and some other issues. The dskchk took more than two hours. When I loaded winxp it went to dskchk again and did a brief check. Then I defragged the hell out of my drive with diskeeper and got rid of every red line in the graphic. Had perhaps never been so good.

Then I went to ubunutu install and it went through like you hope everything will work. I'm installed now and inside though the greeting appliance is corrupted and the terminal will not accept data for password. I type sudo pppoeconf and it asks for password. At that point the terminal will accept no data.

Perhaps there is some useful info for others in this thread. I now have gparted livecd and it is awsome, almost scary it's so powerful. Thanks for your help.