One thing I would recommend for you is to have your Windows installation completed before you bring it in. Set its partition size to what you're going to want it to be, and make sure it's the only partition on the drive at the time, or at least the first one on the disk.
-wes On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]>wrote: > Next month, I'd like to bring my desktop box in to the Sunday clinic > and set up a dual boot - it's currently XP, and I'd like to dual boot > with the current Linux Mint. (Hard drive has more than 100 gb > available, so there should be plenty of room.) My question: Apart > from backup (which I do regularly anyway), and download of the OS, > what else should I do in advance of bringing in the machine? Or bring > with me? > > One note: I don't have wireless installed in it, have been using DSL > cable. Not sure if that would make any difference (I think I recall > DSL cabling in the clinic room, at least last time I was there), but > thought I'd mention it. > > Randy Stapilus > www.ridenbaugh.com > Northwest politics and public affairs > WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
