<span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">There is no problem with dual boot of Vista and Kubuntu.<br>While installing Kubuntu its bootloader detects Vista and gives the option of what you want to boot at startup.
<br>I have dual boot of Kubuntu and Vista as well as Kubuntu and XP on seperate machines and they work fine.<br>Cheers<br>farid<br></span></span><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 4/24/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Mike Teehan
</b> <<a href="mailto:detox.genie@gmail.com">detox.genie@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Tuesday 24 April 2007 03:42:44 am Donn wrote:
<br>> > I have got a new laptop with Vista and I would like to dual boot with<br>> > Kubuntu 6.06. The hard drive is a primary partition of 80GB. However I<br>><br>> I can't give you specifics because I don't know anything about Vista.
<br>><br>> This is only a suggestion - it starts with asking *why* you want to dual<br>> boot? If it's because you want to get used to Kubuntu but do not know if<br>> you will be able to rely on it, then I would suggest that you simply use it
<br>> as a live-CD for a while and see. Don't go to all the hassle of<br>> partitioning and so on.<br>><br>> If you do go the whole-hog and dual boot, well, I found in my dual-days<br>> that I spent all my time in the O/S that I *used*. Since that was Win2000
<br>> back then, I never had time to give Linux a chance -- there's always<br>> another excuse like "I'm expecting mail" and so on and on. In the end, the<br>> only way to break the habit was to force myself to *only* use Linux (Fedora
<br>> Core 1 in those days) and that was how I got a feel for the beast.<br>><br>> Just saying.<br>> /d<br><br>As long as you install Kubuntu after Vista, setting up a dual boot is quite<br>easy. Donn makes a good point though, if you don't need to install, don't
<br>bother. Just run the live cd.<br><br>If you are going to install, take the plunge and try using ONLY Kubuntu for a<br>week. You won't be missing much with Vista. Beryl makes Aero look<br>paleolithic.<br><br>--- eMpTy
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