8.04 with Vista Home Premium
NoOp
glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Sat May 3 18:43:11 UTC 2008
On 05/03/2008 03:17 AM, Rick wrote:
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> I would very much appreciate advice from some of you who have already installed
> 8.04 in a dual boot with Vista.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
Perhaps:
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+%2Bdualboot+%2Bvista
will help?
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