Windowless world.

[Nils Kassube]

Basil Chupin wrote:
> Hasn't it been a well known fact for years that you always install
> Windows BEFORE installing Ubuntu - or the corollary that you don't
> install Linux before installing Windows? Although I thought I read
> something quite recently where it gives instructions on how to
> recover your Linux system after Windows went-forth-and-multiplied
> with the HD?

I think it depends on your Windows version. If you have one of those OEM 
versions which might use the entire disk without asking, your Linux part 
would be lost (obviously). However, my XP Pro install CD (or is it DVD?) 
lets me select on which partition I wanted to install Windows and it 
wouldn't harm an existing Linux partition. Of course it would overwrite 
the boot manager, but it isn't too difficult to restore GRUB from a 
LiveCD afterwards. In this case, installing Windows first would be just 
a matter of convenience because I wouldn't need to restore GRUB.


Nils