Hi Andre. It has been quite a while since I saw your name here. I've installed the Ubuntu, both 5 and 6 on several systems that had XP preinstalled. Most of time the XP survived. It does tend to startup in whatever XP considers a safe mode but lives okay after that first reboot to it. By default if you say yes it will shrink the XP partitions to about half their original size. Be sure to save any critical stuff to something else before you do the install.
Ray On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:07 -0500, Andre' Blanchard wrote: > Hello > I looked at EMC a few years ago but other priorities got in the way of > hobbies before I could get hardware running. :) > > I have downloaded the live CD image and have burned a disk that will boot > on my HP laptop, which has Windows XP home on the hard drive. > > So far I have been answering NO to the question of creating a home > directory. But I would like to try some of my own programs. > > What happens if I answer YES? > Will Windows survive? > Can the home directory be on a USB drive? How big does it need to be? > > I do have an older computer I will try to install the Live disk to, but if > I remember correctly I could not get the BDI version to install on it, I > think it was some problem with the video card. > > I will be away from phone lines and the web for the weekend but hopefully > will have some time to play around with the simulators some more. > > > __________ > Andre' B. NW Wis. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express > Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take > control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. > http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
