Dual booting Win XP and Ubuntu

[Phillip Susi]

Yes, it works perfectly out of the box.  The installer will offer to 
shrink the windows partition and install ubuntu to the free space.  You 
will then have the option at boot time to choose which OS to load.

Phil Cooper wrote:
> Hi folks;
> 
> I have a HP Pavillion zd8000 laptop that I use as my main "desktop" and 
> I would like to be able to use it with Ubuntu, but also keep a WinXP 
> install available for playing games. Is it easy to do this without 
> losing my current XP install?
> 
> Does the Ubuntu install process have the ability to configure dual 
> booting? I remember reading back in the mists of time that XP didn't 
> like sharing with other operating systems.
> 
> Thanks for any pointers;
> 
>  - Phil.
>