On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Donald Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 27, 2010 at 6:27 AM, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: [snip] > If you install either Ubuntu or Mint, early in the installation > process you will deal with partitioning. If you install "side-by-side" > with Windows, the installer will squash your Windows partition for you > to make space for Ubuntu/Mint. It will also install Grub in the master > boot record of your disk, which will give you the option of running > Ubuntu/Mint or Windows.
One additional and essential bit of advice: before you do anything like the above, make sure you completely back up your system with something like Acronis (I use SATA drives in little USB enclosures as my backup devices; they are very cheap these days), so that you can easily get back to where you started from if you make an error. If you use Acronis, you want to back up the entire disk, not just the Windows file-system, so that partioning info and the master and partition boot records are part of the backup. This is easier to do with their software than it is to describe. /Don _______________________________________________ gnucash-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnucash.org/mailman/listinfo/gnucash-devel
