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new pc: dual boot vista and linux - 5/23/2008 17:10:43
i´m getting a new pc next week (my old one is terminally ill) and i want to dual boot with vista premium and ubuntu.
afaik as it´s an HP it comes with the system disks on a hidden partition that i assume lets me set the pc from the beginning.
i envisaged partitioning the 500gb drive into 3-4 parts, 1 for ubuntu (around 50gb total split between swap (2gb), grub (50mb) and main (the remaining) and then the other 3 for vista like
1. system and prog. files
2. multimedia crap
3. er, other stuff
is it best to partition via vista or ubuntu live cd or.... ?
any advice is most welcome as it´s easier to do it with some forethought rather than hindsight :)
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ps i want to make sure i don´t accidentally over write the hidden partition with the installation files on (why can´t they just give a disk??!) i´ll make backups of those first anyway
< Message edited by d a v e -- 5/24/2008 3:13:15 >
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RE: new pc: dual boot vista and linux - 5/24/2008 17:27:06
is there anyone out there? :)
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RE: new pc: dual boot vista and linux - 5/25/2008 1:54:29
thanks for those - i´d found the ubuntu forum thread but not the other one ... looking at it now ;)
i just wondered if anyone had actually done it?! like bobby douglas??
i think that article is the way i imagined doing it
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