dual boot ?

[Bob]

too many issues with the old box not worth the $$ or hassles to untangle 
so she is buying a new box will have 500gb hard drive and comes with 
windows 10.  using old keyboard, mouse, monitor.

so should be a lot easier.  she wants to have them function as two 
different machnes.. she has to use windows 10 for work so is stuck with 
that.

should I partition with partition magic first.
or use the windows 10 which will be installed from the source (with disk) 
and use it's partitioner, but will this allow linux to boot or somehow 
have to go thru windows.

I have only ever done it with blanking the hard drive, using partition 
magic or other to make two partitions (suggestions as to sizes) and then 
load windows on one partition and kubuntu on other partition.

thanks
Bob




On Thu, 21 May 2020, Dave Nelson (dave at dalek.zone) wrote:

> Are you partitioning for Windows and Linux on the same drive, or Windows on 
> one drive and Linux on the other? In any case, you need to install Windows 
> first, as you said. If you want both operating systems on the same drive, 
> then you want to partition the drive before installing Windows, because 
> Windows will simply suggest using the entire drive. Only Ubuntu/Kubuntu gives 
> you the ability to partition any way you want.
>
> HTH.
>
> ---
> All the best,
>
> Dave
>
> On 2020-05-21 00:34, Bob wrote:
>> been a while since I helped someone set up a computer to dual boot.
>> 
>> brain is having a hard disk seek error
>> 
>> 
>> I have partition magic (8.0)
>> and Kubuntu 18.4 (which is what they want)
>> 
>> they have their windoze disk.
>> 
>> I know windoze has to go on first but is that before or after 
>> partitioning??
>> 
>> thanks
>> Bob
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