8.04 in Windows

[Martin Laberge]

On Friday 13 June 2008 10:22:38 Billie Walsh wrote:
> Has anyone tried the new feature to install within Windows?
> 
> My reasoning is that I just bought a new laptop and I hate to do 
> anything while it's in warranty, I also thought about buying a new hard 
> drive and installing Kubuntu on it and taking out the original drive in 
> case I need to have warranty service. I can always pop in the original 
> hard drive if I have to send it in.
> 
> -- 
> Life is what happens while your busy making other plans.
> 
> 

I will tell you my personal (!!!) trick...

- Boot the Installer CD
- At partitionning stage, choose manual,
- Schrink your windows partition to about 8Gig 
  (with advanced menu operation if I remember correctly)
  (Resize to a smaller size)
- Use the rest of the disk to create Root (10Gig), 
  Swap(2Gig), and Home(Rest-of-Gigs) partitions.
- Install your preferred OS in the New Root Partition (Kubuntu ??)
- Wait the time to prepare a coffee,
- Reboot, And CHOOSE which OS you like to run now. (In the Grub Boot Menu)
  (The installer took care of this)
- When someone else is not able to work with a computer, without
  windows deciding for themselves, Reboot and boot them in windows.
- Dont waste time explaining Linux to someone who does not ASK for it.
- Use your time to Explain to those who ask, this is well placed.

(This way the warranty is not void, 
you did'nt even reinstalled the original windows,
you only modified the allocated space for the original system
and you did not added an unknown program to their system
in fact you can let their system intact and never use it again
or use it only to show that the hardware is really broken)

Hope it will help.

-- 
Martin Laberge
mlsoft at videotron.ca
Tel:(418)521-6823