Dual boot

Ken Siersma siersmak at ekkinc.com
Wed Aug 2 18:52:37 UTC 2006


Ken Siersma wrote:
> Patrick Newberry wrote:
>   
>> Just got a pc off of ebay. 
>>
>> It has linspire on it and My initial thought was to blow it away and
>> just put in ubuntu.
>>
>>
>> However... How hard is it to set up a dual boot with Ubuntu?
>>
>> I recall with suse (a while ago) it would ask you during the install if
>> you wanted a dual boot.
>>
>> Is that the case with ubuntu?
>>
>> Pat
>> www.gypsyfarm.com
>>
>>
>>
>>   
>>     
> It's automatic.  The GRUB menu will include a section of 'Other 
> operating systems' which in your case will include linspire.
>
>   
Although, I should mention that you should choose to manually partition 
the disk.  Autopartitioning would most likely erase the entire disk.

-Ken

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Ken Siersma, Software Engineer
EKK, Inc.
http://www.ekkinc.com
     





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