8.04 with Vista Home Premium

[Charlie Kravetz]

On Fri, 2008-05-02 at 18:53 +0300, Rick wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 
> I have now downloaded 8.04 and it runs from the disk in both my XP 
> desktop and the Vista laptop. For whatever reason I never got 7.1 to 
> work. I gave it to my son and he installed it straight away!
> 
> I'm waiting for some more room before I install 8.04 in a partition on 
> the desktop, but I have room on the HP Pavilion dv600 with Vista Home 
> Premium, and I'd like to get Ubuntu working there ASAP. I have heard 
> there are special problems with setting up a dual boot with Vista. Can 
> any of you direct me to sources of guidance for the installation?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> Rick

Here is a guide on setting up dual boot with windows. Please back up
your windows drive before doing this. That is a very important step.
I have not tested this myself. 
     https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/switching/dualboot.html
Even thouh it refers to windows XP, it should work.

good luck,

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