Installing Ubuntu on a Toshiba laptop with Windows 8

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And I am using Ubuntu in Virtual Box which works fine too!!

On Tue, Oct 8, 2013 at 6:09 AM, Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8 October 2013 01:17, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
>> She as adapted to Ubuntu quite well but still needs to use windows
>> sometimes, which means she must use a very old laptop with xp on it.  If I
>> had dual booted it would have saved her that trouble.
>
> Just run Windows XP in VirtualBox under Ubuntu. Works fine.
>
> "Windows XP Mode" is a free VM from MS. It's intended for only Windows
> 7 Pro users but it is freely downloadable and works fine on all
> versions of Windows, Mac OS X and Linux under VirtualBox.
>
> http://lifehacker.com/5965889/how-to-run-windows-xp-for-free-in-windows-8
>
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