[ale] Setting up dual boot machine

[tfreeman at intel.digichem.net (Thompson Freeman)]

On 05/30/2008 06:49:27 PM, Pete Hardie wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> My wife is finally going to join the Linux world, but she wants to
> take baby steps, so I need to lean about
> setting up a dual-boot system onto her Windoze machine.  Anyone have
> pointers to a good tutorial?


I think you have enough pointers/advise already, so I'll start with a 
"What they said".

I've got an ancient laptop dual booting an obsolete Winders and Ubuntu. 
My recollection is that the original setup was a piece of cake. Get the 
Windows partition shrunk so there is enough room to work, and install 
Linux.

Of course, a second hard disk would be better, but not always possible. 
And as always, perform a backup before trying anything fancy with your 
disk system. No point in tempting the gremlins...