On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 3:16 PM, Davin Pearson <[email protected]> wrote: > Another question about your laptop running a dual boot Linux and Windows... > > When you installed Linux on your laptop, did you have to format the C drive > first? > > Then did you install Linux... what variant of GNU/Linux are you using? I am > using lubuntu > > Then finally, did you have to reinstall windows on to your laptop. > > I phoned Global PC's and they recommended a $500 laptop with 4 gigs of RAM, > a 1 TB hard drive and they told me > that I would need to reinstall Windows to get a dual boot system working on > a single hard drive machine.
If it comes with windows on it, you can install linux and it will repartition the disk, with windows still there on a smaller partition. So no, you don't have to reinstall windows. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
