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

[Chris G]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 01:04:19PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> 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.
> 
I sort of remembered that this might be so, thanks for confirming it
for me.  :-)

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Chris Green