I've never done any partitioning before, and I want to dual boot Ubuntu along with Windows 8.
My problems is that Windows itself is installed on an 128GB SSD, while everything else (the documents etc) are stored on two 1TB SATA drives.
How should I go about installing/partitioning Ubuntu alongside Windows while taking up as little of the limited SSD space as possible? I want to allocate around 500GB to Ubuntu.
Regarding this you can shrink the volumes od 128GB SSD from disk management and create an unallocated space around 20GB for Ubuntu installation. The 1TB will show in Ubuntu itself as mounted disk and you don't have to change any settings for this.
While restarting click F8 and Select boot from USB. Now while starting the machine will load with the Ubuntu cd in drive. Please select the unallocated space for installing the OS and let the installer to do the remaining things with typical installation. It will create the swap and other partitions. grub writing will taken care by default.
Note : once the OS is installed disable instant boot from bios in win8
