I think we DESPERATLY need a grub/winXP newbie HowTo

B baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Wed Oct 27 22:19:47 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 18:01 -0400, Ben Novack wrote:
> I resized my XP partition before I began the process, had Ubuntu
> install into the empty space, and I've been merrily dual-booting ever
> since.
> 

IMHO it's very unsafe to use a distro to partition your C drive.
Whenever I've installed on a windows box I used partition magic first.
It really is the only way to be sure.

Suse 9.1 can bugger duel booting too, though there is a fix on the Suse
website.

Barry





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