Doug LaRue wrote:
** Reply to message from "Paul G. Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sat, 07
Jun 2008 00:22:21 -0700
Can a box be dual-booted with Linux and Vista? If so, how about if Vista
has already been installed? What if it takes the entire drive?
a good dual boot option for Vista is to boot Vista, install the Ubuntu
8.04 CD, start the installation and tell it to use the entire disk. ;-)
It'll be dual boot only once but isn't that the best option.
Or you can try the Wubi feature of the Ubuntu 8.04 install. I figure
Kubuntu has this too but don't know for sure...just looked and
Kubuntu 8.04 has wubi.exe on the CD so that's available too.
Doug
I don't know if there is a Wubi that is compatible with Vista. However,
Vista has a compatibility mode that might allow you to run Wubi as an XP
program. IMO partitioning the disk is a good option. A suggestion that
was made to me at one time is to run linux on a USB drive. The person
who made that suggestion didn't know that I had a second hard drive on
the machine, so I used the second drive for my linux. I don't know how
well the USB option would work because of speed of access to the file
system and because you would probably have to work to have GRUB on your
hard drive rather than the USB drive.
Marieke
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