It's a HP laptop and by default it created three primary partitions (bad HP!) The first one is Windows' default partition taking up around 95% of disk size and the rest are recovery and utility partitions I'm sure I don't need.
Ubuntu's installer is famous for its user-friendlyness and it hasn't let me down now. It offered to automatically resize Vista's partition and use all new space for itself, which I didn't like, so I took the manual option. Though it doesn't explicitely say that, the partition editor can resize partitions and NTFS file systems The Right Way. I've reduced the Windows' partition size (though the progress bar is messed up it actually doesn't take a long time), created a smallish (15 GB) primary ext3 partition for Ubuntu, a big "general storage" partition with ext2 (I'm a big fan of the ext2 driver for Windows as it allows me to use a partition for Linux, Windows and FreeBSd) and a Linux swap partition. That covers the 4 primary partitions.
Ubuntu's installer is simply great. I hope I can use some of its ideas in finstall. (How's finstall progressing? Very slowsly. I hope I get some funding from the FreeBSD Foundation so I can do more work for finstall).
Finstall
Hi, Can we expect Finstall to be in 7.1-RELEASE or wait untill 8.0 ;)
Finstall
Finstall is currently a bit stalled. I'm still interested in it but lack of funding and free time has slowed its development. I hope to finish it soon.