Seems to me you could always take the proposed solution and modify it or choose to use your own partition scheme.
Perhaps I was unclear: in the Expert Partioner during the installation,
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 the unallocated space is not mentioned. Here is what is listed: /dev/sda -- the whole drive /dev/sda1 200mb ntfs SYSTEM_DRV /dev/sda2 214.64GB ntfs Windows7_OS /dev/sda3 25GB ntfs LENOVO /dev/sda4 12.38GB Vendor diag ntfs PBR_DRV To compare with the Windows listed: Win 7, UEFI, 500 Gig hard drive. Original partitions: System_drv 200 mb, ntfs Windows7_OS, 428.18 gb ntfs Lenovo_D, 25gb ntfs (unlabelled OEM partition) 12.38 Gb If I want to put Linux on the unallocated space, how do I enter it in the expert partioner?
To modify the proposed partition scheme would require that I reenter the information on the windows partitions manually -- and I fear that I would get a detail wrong and botch the whole thing.
Not at all. If it is asking you to change existing partitions there is something very wrong. You should only need to create new partitions for Linux.
Exactly. You have to (or at least you WANT TO) do your windows shrink outside of linux anyway, and you should come away from that with unallocated space as you mentioned. I haven't a clue why it suggested whacking your windows partition again if there was already unallocated space. Seems like it shouldn't. I did shrink the Windows partition in Windows.
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