Installing Ubuntu on SSD

[bbezzina73]

I'm in the Ubuntu installation for my new pc (no dual boot) and I'm in the partitions section. How do I install Ubuntu without erasing any pre-installed software on the SSD? (SSD is new too)

 

[runswindows95]

What software exactly? If you're installing Linux, very slim the preinstalled software will work.

 

[bbezzina73]

What software exactly? If you're installing Linux, very slim the preinstalled software will work.

I've got a Samsung 840 EVO SSD and I think it has Magician software and maybe some other kind of encryption stuff.

Even if they don't work in Linux, I don't want them erased either....

 

[Alabalcho]

Boot your Linux in LiveCD mode (with SSD attacbed), then copy (any) content from SSD over to e.g. USB flashdrive. After that, you can safely format your drive.

If that's too much a hassle - shrink the existing partition, leafe couple of gigs on it free (sou you can use it as a boot partition), and put Linux in remaining free space.

 

[skittle]

All that software can be downloaded from samsung website. In addition it does nothing in Linux so you can safely delete it.