Comment 12 for bug 252900

@michel Duhurt
You are welcome, glad it worked for you.

@Broomer68
That was one of the reasons I forgot to mention as not allowing for a conversion. If you don't need more space on that recovery partition, you could shrink it using the partition editor in the livecd, and using that space for the Ubuntu installation. I should warn you that it could result in loss of recovery functionality or worse (don't I know that, it's become something of a yearly occurrence for me to mess up my hard disks)

On a completely unrelated note, I just noticed that the google chrome browser has an entry in it's spelling dictionary for ubuntu, telling me to replace it with Ubuntu.