On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 09:26 +1000, Ben wrote:
> On 5/4/07, Ken and Jenny Hawley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I was at the Cebit Computer show in Sydney yesterday and spoke to
> > Richard working at the stand. He was most helpful in suggestions which I
> > have now made to work.
> >
> > There were 2 areas that we discussed but I did not write down his
> > comments but still wish to find answers
> >
> > 1. My problem or fear is to install Ubuntu 6.10, which I understand
> > may wipe out the Windows information on my Windows dedicated partitions.
I've installed Ubuntu 6.10 on several windows laptops and desktops and
found that the Ubuntu installer handles windows very well. It might be a
good idea to have someone hold your hand the first time you do it. Like
many things, it's obvious once you've done it.
I'm not sure what others do, but I create four or five partitions during
the install:
* the original partition, shrunken but still containing windows
+data
* a fat32 "scratch space" partition, readable by either system
* Linux
* Linux swap
* possibly also the hidden windows partition with recovery on
it??
The second partition can be used to pass information between Windows and
Linux, eg:
*create a document in windows,
*copy it in windows to the scratch partition
*reboot into linux
*read the document from the scratch partition in linux
Obviously it can work the other way too. You can read the windows
partition directly, but personally I think that's a bad idea. Others may
disagree.
Ubuntu (and probably all the other major distros) handles this scenario
very easily. If it's done with moderate care you won't lose Windows. The
software is very reliable. If you have sensitive data, back it up first,
but then you back everything up anyway, don't you. You do backup, don't
you???? ;-)
I wouldn't think there was any particular need for separate drives, but
you may have circumstances that make it a good idea.
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