does this look reasonable

[Gary Herbert]

On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 14:52, Norberto Bensa <nbensa at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
>
That was an option on the CD... I have no intention of using windows on this
computer.... I am new and did see a lot of other setups... I was just
wondering if I might have done something wrong?

Gary H.
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