does this look reasonable

[Norberto Bensa]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Gary Herbert <signdog at gmail.com> wrote:
> I used to have a duel boot system... One day I started having problems with
> Ubuntu... It would lock up, take a long time to get gmail and other bad
> stuff... Only way I could get out was to reboot... I finally backed up Vista
> and put in my CD and proceeded to install Ubunta... Here is what I have:


Reasonable for what? For Linux only? Yes. For dual boot? Nope. You
need space for Windows.

If you still want windows, I suggest to install it first. When the
installer asks the drive and partition, chose half of your harddrive.

Once windows is installed, install Ubuntu (or whatever distro you
like) and chose the unused space for installation. IIRC, the ubuntu
installer does the right thing. I can't remember if it generates a
grub entry for Windows, but I guess you know how to make it by hand.

Regards,
Norberto