dual boot ?

[Dave Nelson (dave@dalek.zone)]

In any case, although having one of the operating systems as a virtual 
machine, using VirtualBox for instance, is possible and does work, you 
get a performance hit with the guest operating system (the one in the 
virtual machine). Dual booting lets you get the best performance out of 
both operating systems.

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All the best,

Dave

On 2020-05-21 02:01, Bob wrote:
> is an older computer so it only has room for one drive, hopefully
> getting a new larger drive to fit the slot.
>   person using computer is not likely to be able to use a virtual
> drive want to keep it simple for them.
> 
> thanks for the confirmation of what I suspected was the route to 
> follow.
> 
> 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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