<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Karl Larsen wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:4864CF64.7020406@zianet.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Clifford Haynes wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Richard Bourne wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I reinstalled windows and am going to wait a while before i try and play with ubuntu On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 10:35 AM, NoOp <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:glgxg@sbcglobal.net"><glgxg@sbcglobal.net></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On 06/25/2008 07:02 PM, Richard Bourne wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Alright this is how it worked I tried to boot ubuntu and create a new partition with ubuntu's </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre><Snip></pre> <blockquote cite="mid:4864CF64.7020406@zianet.com" type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap=""> I am a noobee. If someone has a better way, "lay it on me". Tnx </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> Your method worked just fine. There are other ways those of us who "think" Linux would use. My approach would be to make a partition for windows. Load Windows and get it working as well as it can. Then load a LiveCD of Ubuntu and get it to load onto a new partition, not steal space from windows, and it will pick up windows in Grub and you can dual boot like you want. Karl </pre> </blockquote> <pre>You have the key to a successful install of Ubuntu and we agree. The only difference is</pre> <pre>that instead of a live CD, I ran it from a folder in M$ Windows.</pre> <pre> M$ Windows & Ubuntu need to be run from their own exclusive partition. M$ Windows by</pre> <pre>default installs in drive C:\ . Windows tends to make a mess of it's own partition which is</pre> <pre>why defrag needs to be run on a regular basis. Ubuntu needs to be run from it's own partition</pre> <pre>to keep M$ Windows from screwing it up. This is just my observation.</pre> <pre> When I first came across Ubuntu "How to", it took me a while to figure it all out.</pre> <pre> Cliff</pre> </body> </html>