dual boot?

[Tom Schenck]

On 2/7/06, ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com <
ubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>
>
> Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 22:01:43 -0600
> From: Charlie England <ceengland at bellsouth.net>
> Subject: dual boot?
>
> Please forgive the total neophyte question.
>
> I'd like to get my feet wet using ubuntu on a dual boot system with Win
> XP. The wording of the help files leaves me with nagging fear that even
> with partitioning, I might not preserve the windows functionality.  If I
> follow the instructions at
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HowtoPartition?highlight=%28CategoryDocumentation%29
>
>
> & accept defaults after that, does the install process preserve the
> Windows partition & allow dual boot?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
>
> If you are at all uneasy, I would recommend installing a second hard disk.
It is fairly simple to set up Ubuntu (or any Linux system) to boot from a
second disk, if Windows is set up on the primary drive. With a little
searching you can get ahold of the GRUB for Windows and even have Windows
ask which OS you want to boot.
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