Windows XP Dual Boot Install

Bryan Pizzuti bpizzuti at optonline.net
Thu Nov 18 02:19:18 UTC 2004


What, you mean someone actually READ the XP EULA??

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 17:27 -0800, Michael Dean wrote:
> you must install W2k first, format entire disk, then install Linux.  
> Forget xp, EULA too restrictive.  Grub will partition as you desire.
> 
> Kevin Mulligan wrote:
> 
> > I'm working on a doc over at: 
> > https://www.ubuntulinux.org/wiki/WindowsDualBootHowTo
> >
> > I'd like to ask any users that have successfully dual booted Windows 
> > XP (or Windows 2000), if they don't mind, to e-mail me with what you 
> > did so I can document the 'cleanest' method to getting Ubuntu Warty on 
> > a dual boot with XP.
> >
> > Examples of info I need:
> > -what program you used to partition out space for Ubuntu (especially 
> > dealing with the NTFS format) (and was it a free program, if so where 
> > can users find it)
> > -how difficult you would rate the process
> > -if you went with an open FAT32 partition so Ubuntu and Windows can 
> > 'share' e-mail, how did you set this up
> > -anything else relevant that I haven't asked for
> >
> > Thanks, this would help me out a bunch while I wait for my ShipIt CDs 
> > to arrive sometime. I wanted to wait until I received them to do a 
> > completely fresh install and go through the steps myself and make sure 
> > all goes as planned.
> >
> > --Kevin
> >
> 





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