8.04 in Windows

[Billie Walsh]

On 06/13/2008 Martin Laberge wrote:
>  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

That would be my normal mode also. Thing is if you send it back and they 
try to boot it up they immediately wipe the drive when they see the Grub 
boot menu. Everything you have is GONE.

Running Kubuntu within Windows MIGHT hide it enough to save anything 
you've done.

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