Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

[Ilya Vishnyakov]

Hmmm. Interesting :( 

 

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From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
[mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of chitu
alexandru
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:35 PM
To: Ubuntu user technical support,not for general discussions
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

 

hi
i am alex,i don't recomend you to do that on a laptop
it's better to do it on a separat hdd,because any linux is installing
some files on the windows partition,and that will harm both programs,i
have try this and after a few days it colapsed all,and lost all data
from my comp.after that i have put another hdd drive in,unpluged the
primary drive and installed the linux.now it is working.when i start my
computer y select the boot type i need,linux or windows,be carefull whit
the internet launch you need to set up the corret parameters to work not
all start automaticaley when it finished the instaling.you need to try
in troubleshooting and there it will tell you what to do.
good luck

----- Original Message ----
From: Karl Larsen <k5di at zianet.com>
To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
<ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 10:24:01 PM
Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS

Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
> Sounds reasonable, thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Nils
Kassube
> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 2:16 PM
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Installing Ubuntu as 2nd OS
>
> Ilya Vishnyakov wrote:
>  
>> I have a Dell laptop with Win Xp and 1 partition on it. This laptop
>>    
> has
>  
>> very valuable information for me, personally. I was wondering if will
>> be able to install Ubuntu as second OS on my laptop, without
>> reformatting the hard drive. I need to keep the data on it intact.
>>    
>
> There is no warranty that it will work without problems. While it
worked
>
> for several people to resize XP partitions (me included), I had
problems
>
> doing that on 2 machines. IMHO it is always risky to change the 
> partitioning of a hard disk. Therefore I would suggest to make a
backup 
> of your valuable data to CD / DVD and check that you can restore the
> data 
> from the backup media. Furthermore, make sure you have your Windows
> CD/DVD 
> at hand in case you need to restore the Windows system.
>
>
> Nils
>
>  
    Also it will be smart to defragment your Windows before starting. If

it has been a long time since you did this it will take a long time.

Karl


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