Originally Posted by
SpaceBass
Hey Mike, congrats and well done!
2 - to repartition the HD, you'll probably need to download and burn another CD, I like something called Gparted
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/
Once you boot from that CD, its as simple as dragging the partitions to the sizes you want and letting Gparted do its thing. Your data should be preserved.
Actually the Ubuntu Desktop CD (probably used to install) ought to have Gparted on it. If you re-boot the Ubuntu CD and use it Live without installing, try to start up Gparted, you should be able to re-partition and resize the partitions. Once done, shut down the Desktop CD, remove it, and reboot the installed Ubuntu you have on HD.