ubuntu-us-nj Request for advice

[Ken Hansen]

Have you considered Wubi? Running a VM under Virtualbox or VMWare  
server? Or even booting off the install CD, saving settings on the HD?

If your system can boot off USB, you should be fine.

WUBI will install inside your existing WinXP partition.

Virtualbox will allow you to run Ubuntu while also running WinXP.

The install CD will allow you access files on your HD, as will WUBI.  
Virtualbox will not.

HTH,

Ken

On May 2, 2009, at 6:02 PM, <dtgusa at gmail.com> wrote:

> Greetings and good day to you all:
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> I’m seriously considering switching from XP SP3 to Ubuntu 9.04; dual 
>  boot option initially.  I have a single 82 gig hard drive using NTF 
> S.  If I go with an external USB hard drive instead of adding an int 
> ernal hard drive will it work to install Ubuntu on to?   Scared to r 
> epartition the existing hard drive due to a bad experience years ago 
>  and use of NTFS verses FAT 32.
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> Thank you in advance for any assistance,
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> DTG
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