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Wolfman... please look long and hard at the Warning in CAPITAL LETTERS in the Ubuntu Users Guide you quoted. Think of yourself as a newbie. This is a guide for BEGINNERS and I defy you to find ANY beginner who'll understand one damn word in that warning. "BACKUP ALL YOUR DATA" assumes many things that a beginner likely will not know how to do... even if they had any DATA to backup. "ONCE YOU START PARTITIONING..." - give me a break! There isn't 1 in a 100 users, let alone beginners, who have a clue what you're talking about.
Hi,
yes I know which is why a link to this guide is included within the beginners guide!, if people cannot simply copy and paste their important data to a USB stick or external drive to back up their data; then I'm sorry but I cannot help them!:
PLEASE NOTE: THIS GUIDE DOES NOT DEPICT THE INSTALLATION (CREATION) OF A UEFI PARTITION. IF YOU HAVE A COMPUTER WITH UEFI/BIOS, MAKE SURE YOU ALSO CREATE A UEFI/BIOS PARTITION AS WELL. SEE FURTHER REMARKS ABOUT UEFI PARTITIONS IN THE GUIDE!.
Linux beginners should also look here:
You can only partition on an unmounted drive using an installation disk of your Linux flavour with a partitioning tool included, use the Gparted tool in live mode, or you can download a copy of Gparted from the link…