-- Posted by FishyCrossing at 3:01 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 Linux. You are so pretty. Sure I love Windows but there are some things windows cant give me. I need a women that will stay healthy with me, and keep up to speed with everyday tasks. Sure, Windows, you were great at being a hardcore gamer with me, but when I needed work done you stumbled...I guess I need someone with better protection from adware and viruses. Linux...But the thing is, I love both of you. And last time I had a go with you, Linux I tried to have you and windows but you were selfish. You wiped out the harddrive and left me with a crippled version of you in the process. You were barely functional. I think I did something wrong. But I wanna give you a second chance! Basicly: Awhile ago I tried to dual boot Ubuntu and Windows home. Somehow the installation got fucked. I still dont know what I did to fuck it up, but im thinking im gonna give it another try. Do I just need to burn the disk image and install ubuntu to a new partition? And all should be well? Sure I can install linux but Im still a little confused about dual booting...A little help? -- Posted by cheerleadersbugme at 3:03 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 mac os x is what i use, its the shit..i havent had a single pop up, virus, and its amazing with my music..yay panther version -- Posted by Macropiper at 3:07 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 To make the installation CD you just need to burn the CD image to a CD. Theoretically, it should automatically set dual booting up, however, as far as I know, Ubuntu has no ability to resize NTFS partitons (what windoes XP uses) so, if you want to instll ubuntu, and have your whole hard drive formated as one NTFS partition (what most people do), then you either need to buy a new hard drive to install ubuntu on, or use something like partition magic to resize the windows NTFS partition so that you can install ubuntu on a new partition. (Edited by Tangaroa at 11:07 am on Dec. 7, 2005) -- Posted by goalieman286 at 3:08 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 dude, stay with Windows. Better for gaming. -- Posted by shadowpool at 3:17 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 Try installing windows before installing linux.  The windows bootloader doesn't play nice with lilo or grub.     I love ubuntu! -- Posted by squirellplayingtag at 4:46 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 I recomment defraging your hard drive, backing up your data and using partition magic or the one on knoppix(I forget what it is but it worked nicely for me) to resize your windows drive. Also when setting it up, make sure to make a partition for  /home. That way if you ever want to use a different distro, you can keep your /home partition and all your files will be there(if done correctly). -- Posted by mephisto mortis at 6:16 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 Ubuntu is an amazing OS.  I put that bad boy on my parents computer and not only do they love it, but they can keep things updated and maintained on their own, without asking me a question every two minutes.  I completely recommend it if its your first go at linux. Yes Ubuntu should auto detect and automatically set up the dual boot for you.  I'm also going on Tangaroa's assumption that your current windows install is on one partition, comsuming the entire harddrive.  In which case, you need to repartition and install windows first (on its designated partition).  This is important because windows tends to overwrite the mbr. -- Posted by Vertigo at 1:31 am on Dec. 9, 2005 Quote: from shadowpool at 6:17 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 Try installing windows before installing linux.  The windows bootloader doesn't play nice with lilo or grub.     I love ubuntu! That is a friggin understatement!  The Windows bootloader doesn't even check for another OS, it just decimates everything in it's path and leaves nothing but the ravages of monopolization in it's wake. I find that Partition Magic is shakey, and I prefer not to use it.  I use a software suite from Acronis to do my partitioning, it's given me no problems so far. Ubuntu will detect your windows partition and install a bootloader for you...it's practically idiot proof. -- Posted by thewonderer at 11:26 pm on Dec. 29, 2005 Dump windows, lol. Ubuntu is the best OS I have ever run, I'm lousy at running linux but I can figure it out and it made my PII with 64 ram faster than either of the PIVs in my house. Have you ever thought about a windows emulator for linux? I dunno, I can't get one working myself but it sure looks better than the actual thing. -- Posted by Macropiper at 2:33 pm on Jan. 2, 2006 Ive used Wine to try to get dome windows programs going, some work acceptablly, some dont work particularly well, some dont work at all. -- Posted by Emily87 at 2:16 am on Jan. 3, 2006 Quote: from goalieman286 at 6:08 pm on Dec. 6, 2005 dude, stay with Windows. Better for gaming. yeah my bf uses windows for gaming and ubuntu for everything else. -- Posted by xxtoxicxfemmexx at 7:05 pm on Feb. 12, 2006 ogih