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johney69
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_ 		14. January 2008 @ 19:06 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
hey i need some help with dual booting
i have xp on the pc that i want 2 dual boot with and i wanna dual boot with linux-2008
is there and free ware that would make it really easy 4 me
so i don't have 2 partition the hard drive myself????
and a dual booting program
?????
can any1 help me plz?????
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omnicore
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 11:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
If you install Ubuntu Linux it will recognize that you have windows XP on your computer and setup the boot manager to allow you to choose which OS to boot. Do you have a separate hard drive you are installing Linux onto or do you plan on using the same hard drive you installed windows on?
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johney69
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 20:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
on the same hard drive

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omnicore
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_ 		15. January 2008 @ 20:04 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Unless you left a bit of space open and unpartitioned on that hard drive you will need something like Partition Magic to pull some space away from XP to allow linux to format and install on.
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_ 		17. January 2008 @ 05:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
1) You could try InstLux which installs Linux from within Windows and recognizes it as though it is just another program you can remove/uninstall later.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/instlux/

2) Similar and one I have actually used with Ubuntu is Wubi:
http://wubi-installer.org/

3) Another possibility is UNetbootin
http://lubi.sourceforge.net/unetbootin.html

If you install PCLinuxOS it will automatically detect your Windows partitions; you could use an extra partition to install it to and it will automatically create a bootloader which asks at boot time which OS to start.
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