<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/4.2.2"> </HEAD> <BODY> Hi All After reading your various advices again, I hope my response makes sense and any comments are most welcome. Doug: I agree Win 7 will be better for me if I can find a source here and will use it to shrink its partition to 20% of the hard drive. Colin & Pep3ts: I have saved the link to Team Viewer in case Unity still gives me trouble. The new PC's graphics card should be fine. NoOp/Gary: This old PC only has 1GB memory/RAM and its Ubuntu + Win XP was setup in 2005 with a helper and no detail of the process is in my skull. Your very good suggestions would mean this old head must learn more new components and applications. So my intentions: Get a new PC in a desktop case so I don't need to get down low and my 19" monitor can sit on it when we downsize. The first quote is for a 64 bit I3 motherboard with 3.4 GHz cpu, 4GB DDR3 memory, 1000 GB SATA 3.5" hard drive and a R/W DVD. Learn Win 7 before trying more steps. Make Win 7 shrink its own partition to 200 GB. Install Ubuntu 14.04.1 that I have downloaded but must check its integrity (seems smaller 625 MB than expected 981 MB) Just found how to MD5sum/hash. That is my state of play right now . If you have stayed with me all this distance , I thank you sincerely for your stamina. Kind regards. Chas.I <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Home +2711 782 8623 <PRE> Mobile +2783 588 0028 </PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> -------- Forwarded Message -------- <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE> From: Charles Irons <<A HREF="mailto:Charles%20Irons%20%3cirons.charles@gmail.com%3e">irons.charles@gmail.com</A>> Reply-to: irons.charles@gmail.com To: Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions <<A HREF="mailto:%22Ubuntu%20user%20technical%20support,%20not%20for%20general%20discussions%22%20%3cubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com%3e">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</A>> Subject: Re: Wanted: Pro to build dual boot Ubuntu Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 21:06:44 +0200 Hi Doug, Colin, NoOp, Peter, Karl, Joep Hope I have got you all. I am really grateful for all the advice and offers of help. Being an old duffer it will take me some time to digest and research the buying options. Other matters are also needing some days , so be patient please. I will respond. Thanks and kind regards. Chas.I <TABLE CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0" WIDTH="100%"> <TR> <TD> -- Home +2711 782 8623 <PRE> Mobile +2783 588 0028 </PRE> </TD> </TR> </TABLE> </BLOCKQUOTE> </BODY> </HTML>