Steve Flynn wrote: > On Dec 6, 2007 3:02 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Sounds astonishingly like my mother and her recent experiences with >>> Vista. I'm scheduled to install a flavour of Linux on her machine >>> (dual boot) over Christmas to give her a taster. >> As she already has Vista installed on her machine how do you intend to >> go about the dual boot? > > Install from the Live CD onto a new partition (created with PartEd). > Grub will detect the existing installation and build and entry into > the menu for Vista. > > That should pretty much be it.
Yup, that should work. Or you could use the 'Shrink Partition' option in disk management. I'd say that's the ONLY useful feature of Vista, being able to shrink a partition. Worked a treat on my mate's HP machine running Vista. Funnily enough, the Windows installer (the one which creates a file on the Windows partition) didn't work. Maybe Vista is the best marketing exercise for Linux? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
