Very many thanks to all those who have contributed responses to my original
post.
Regrettably, my technical knowledge is not as up to date as it should be.
The days of being a Systems Administrator on UNIX servers in the mid-80s
serve me well occasionally at command line level, and the days of
My experience of installing Ubuntu is limited to either a full install on a
virgin hard-disk or into a Win XP environment.
I have been helping a friend recently with problems on their HP 64bit AMD
laptop regarding user profiles, corrupt registry and AVG. Long story,
short - all is now sorted.
I will offer what guidance I can, but you leave a lot of blanks in
your account and I cannot -- and dare not -- try to guess.
On 14 February 2014 21:04, David Goldsbrough da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
My experience of installing Ubuntu is limited to [...] into a Win XP
environment.
Does that
Being a great believer in the adage you mustn't do anything that can't
be
easily undone and you must always have a credible reversion plan, I
would
welcome both a forward strategy and some detailed pointers on how I
should
proceed to achieve a duel-booting machine.
I am very interested in the
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To: UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please
I will offer what guidance I can, but you leave a lot of blanks in
your account and I cannot -- and dare not -- try to guess.
On 14 February 2014 21:04, David Goldsbrough da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
My experience
On 14 February 2014 22:02, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote:
Im not an expert either! but...
First backup everything to an external hard disk-
you can do this by dragging from windows explorer.
Before trying to install dualboot run gparted,
partitioning from maybe system menu
Hi David,
You appear to have gotten a lot of info already.
having chosen for it to install itself alongside
Windows. I thought it would simply find the Windows partition and roughly
half the available space still left on the drive.
[Blink] You let it automatically partition on a machine
