Dual Booting is a nice way to keep your existing Microsoft Windows installation while being able to try out a new Linux installation at the same time. The following video tutorial explains how to setup a system that is able to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux.
All you need is a Windows Boot disk, a Ubuntu dvd and some time at hand. You should make sure that you did a backup of all important files on your machine because you probably need to partition the hard drive to make some space for the linux operating system. The process is explained in great detail, one guy is asking all sorts of questions that beginners probably would be asking as well and the other guy is answering them in great detail.
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Excellent! Thanks, once I get my old computer disk back on track. I’m going to lay it up.
Linux play-time!!!
Oh, that’s a great new logo!
Easy! :-)
What about installing Microsoft Vista (RC1 build 5600) and ubuntu (Dapper LTS 6.06) dual boot??
Good luck…
I haven’t been able to get Vista RC1/edubuntu dual boot working. I’m trying to use both on the same drive (single 200GB drive). I did get XP/Vista RC1 dual boot working, but that’s not what I want in the end.
I also could not get Vista to install on partition 2 of the drive (even with the rest of the drive blank/unpartitioned). I think the problems might be related, but I can’t figure it out at all.
Cheers!