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lang="x-western">Installing Ubuntu with XP should pose no problems. At
least it has not in the past. I just need more room on a second hard
disk, the purchase of which, my wife wisely says, is contingent upon my
losing 5 kilos. <br>
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The urgent question has to do with my HP Pavilion dv600 laptop with
Vista Home Premium loaded. There's plenty of room, but Vista uses a
different partition paradigm from that in XP, and potentially is more
complicated to use as a partner in a dual boot. I have read that 8.04
installs with Vista and have seen reference to such dual boots in the
Users' correspondence, but when I tried an installation yesterday,
there was no recognition of special conditions for Vista. Ultimately I
canceled the installation, because I feared losing the existing Vista
installation.<br>
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I would very much appreciate advice from some of you who have already
installed 8.04 in a dual boot with Vista.<br>
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Thanks in advance.<br>
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Rick<br>
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