Installing Ubuntu on a machine with Windows on it - dual boot?

[Alan Pope]

On 28 September 2010 12:36, Chris G <cl at isbd.net> wrote:
> However I'm thinking a really real Windows XP would sometimes be
> useful.  I'm about to put Xubuntu on a new netbook (Acer) which has XP
> Home on it at the moment.  When I install Xubuntu will I be offerered
> the option of shrinking the XP partition and installing Xubuntu
> alongside it or do I have to do something special to get this to
> happen?
>

That's actually the default. It will offer to split the disk up and
give you a slider to choose how much of of the windows partition to
steal for Xubuntu.

Cheers,
Al.