Ubuntu

[Jimmy1983]

First time post in here guys. Receieved a free Ubuntu, many moons ago's and ive been wanting to have a play for a while. My current set-up is that iam dual-booting with xp and vista, although I would like to delete the xp partition if poss.

Would my best bet be to install a new HDD, smallish one and run Ubuntu on that?

Thanks all

Edit, another idea I would like is to use something like VMware to run it, is this possible? Then if I didnt like it to much I could remove it.

 

[Jimmy1983]

Thanks SiriusB, what do you mean by Natively? Are using VM fairly easy, is there any reason for not installing ubuntu like this?

 

[Jimmy1983]

Depending how old the cd actually is. You should really upgrade to the latest 7.xx release. I imagine the cd is <6.06

nah, the cd I have is 7.04 which I believe is the latest version.

Ive got vmware running, now will I have to partition about a 5gig space to install ubuntu or do I not need to as iam using a VM? Whn using a VM which the OS actually install?

Also ive got a 64 bit version, how do I find out with CPU I have in xp pro?