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Yep. If Windows is already installed you can simply load up the Ubuntu disk, install, and it will prepare all the necessary jazz and configure it for dual booting.
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Really? Is it that clever? oooh...tempted now...hmmm..
Pretty sure in the partition bit you use "resize master partition".
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Yeah, I wasn't talking about partitioning, I was talking about the amount of work necessary to set up dual booting. The amount of work necessary to set up dual booting is zero.
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Sweet it finished five minutes ago. I take it this is a burn to bootable cd job?
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Hmm...am I going to need RAID drivers for this? It'll be setup on a RAID 0 array.
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Giant animal in a zoo that poops out a linux based..erm...don't know where I'm going with this haha, it's an OS.
its a great os, got it on my spare pc... which i never use.. hmmmm
If you never use it how do you know it's great?
I dual boot windows vista and ubuntu on seperate drives and it works great.. you can have them both on the same drive if your CAREFUL!
ALWAYS install windows first then install ubuntu second... Ubuntu supports windows but windows does not support linux.
ALWAYS install windows first then install ubuntu second... Ubuntu supports windows but windows does not support linux.
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You can install windows second its just more hassle messing with the ntloader whatever thingy... Instead of lovely grub 
Greenlizard0: Don't use your motherboards onboard fakeRAID it will just cause untold problems, that i can attest too. FakeRAID support was finally dropped a few revisions ago, and i doubt its coming back. If windows is already installed on fakeraid, i'm not sure how it'll work but basically ubuntu will just see the two drives separate as they are without the fake raid layer on top...
Greenlizard0: Don't use your motherboards onboard fakeRAID it will just cause untold problems, that i can attest too. FakeRAID support was finally dropped a few revisions ago, and i doubt its coming back. If windows is already installed on fakeraid, i'm not sure how it'll work but basically ubuntu will just see the two drives separate as they are without the fake raid layer on top...
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Very true, and if you install the dmraid module (whilst using the live cd) before you install ubuntu the partitioner in the installer will crash
Ubuntu is well worth a go. I use it day to day on my main computer, and occasionally on my laptop [usually when I want to do some coding from the comfort of a settee]. Although having said that I can't actually use it on my laptop any more. Gnome wont load
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