[ubuntu-uk] for the record

[Steve Flynn]

On Dec 6, 2007 3:38 PM, Steve Flynn <anothermindbomb at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, norman <norman at littletank.org> wrote:
> >
> > > Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with
> > > Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine
> > > (dual boot) over Christmas to give her a taster.
> >
> > As she already has Vista installed on her machine how do you intend to
> > go about the dual boot?
>
> Install from the Live CD onto a new partition (created with PartEd).
> Grub will detect the existing installation and build and entry into
> the menu for Vista.
>
> That should pretty much be it.

Addendum - I'll document anything which crops up (and how I fixed it
or not) if you're still toying/fiddling with dual booting after
Chrismas

-- 
Steve
When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
people suffer from a delusion it is called Religion.

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