Installing XP on Ubuntu

[Han Liao]

On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 7:39 AM, Michael White
<enlightenedshadow at yahoo.com>wrote:

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> *From:* dheeraj bansal <bansalcooldheeraj at gmail.com>
> *To:* ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> *Sent:* Wed, October 21, 2009 1:43:10 PM
> *Subject:* Installing XP on Ubuntu
>
> Hi Folks,
>
> I want to install XP on an ubuntu machine. Somebody please tell me
> that it is possible and then how can do it. Somebody please help me.
>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Dheeraj Bansal
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi, Dheeraj.
>
> I want to let you know that it is possible but you will have to partition
> your hard drive. This will allow you to boot up in either XP or Ubuntu. I
> can indeed help explain this but before I do I need to make sure that you
> understand that, this may cause you to lose data that you have on hard drive
> now. If you think that you are up to it and that you will be capable of
> completing the somewhat annoying task then please respond back to me and I
> will help you.
>
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Hi Dheeraj, There are two ways to do this.  First, dual boot, as the other
reply said.  Second, install VirtualBox and install and run XP as a virtual
machine.  This is what I am using.  There are document that you can read.
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