Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: >> Folks, >> >> I've just got a new laptop, bright and shiny with loads of memory and >> gratuitous amounts of hard disk space... >> >> It runs Vista, every rose has its thorns... >> >> What's the latest on dual boot issues? Are there any? Am I likely to >> cause issues with Vista if I go for a default Ubuntu install, or not? >> >> Any advice/experience much appreciated. >> >> Sean > I dual boot Ubuntu and Vista. You can repartition your hard drive live > in Vista if you go to Computer Management->Disk Management, which is > what I did, and then installed Ubuntu onto that partition. I had no > problems and now rarely boot back into Windows. > >
One word of warning though - I ended up using the Grub boot loader, which worked fine, until I went to install Service Pack 1 for Vista. It wouldn't install until I restored the Vista bootloader. I vaguely remember reading that it was recommended to use the Vista one anyway. Stephen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
