Making some space If you want to install Ubuntu, first make sure you have more than one NTFS partition (one of them consisting of Windows). If this is not the case, you have to create free space on ...
I think the reason we haven't heard many complaints about the doing away of physical media is exactly this. As long as power users can make their own offline media, there's nothing to complain about.
The most practical ways to move an operating system installation to a different hard drive are to either restore a system image or clone the old drive to the new drive. These methods will make a 1:1 ...