Best directions for dual-booting with Vista?

[Pascal d'Hermilly]

Dual booting is so last year ;-)
I've been using Virtualbox  for several months now. It works great. 
Virtualization is so much easier because you can work with both systems 
at the same time.
Virtualbox can run with suprisingly few resources, kubuntu and xp on 
like 768 MB ram.

//Pascal


Scott skrev:
> Wagner Ferreira wrote:
>   
>> It seems that you want the two systems working at the same machine.  For 
>> this, you´ll have to partition your HD first, then  install Vista, and 
>> after all install kubuntu in the empty partition.
>>     
> 	He could, instead, use a cd like the system rescue cd to shrink the 
> vista partition then create a new partition with the newly available 
> space to put on Kubuntu.
>
> 	I would rather suggest, if you really need windows, to completely 
> deleting vista and then re-partition your hard drive like above.  Then 
> find a copy of xp somewhere, install that, then install Kubuntu.  I 
> tried installing the ultimate crap M$ calls vista on a few machines, it 
> is not good. :)  In one case, I was simply setting up a friends new 
> computer with vista.  Vista was already pre-installed, but a glitch in 
> it caused me to use its restore function and it cost me two hours of my 
> time and that was even before vista first ran.
>
>   
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