Alias said:
I already installed it once on an old hard drive to see what it's like.
Now I plan to install both XP Pro and Ubuntu on a new drive. It's the
Windows that will take time, not the Ubuntu. Right now I'm under a lot
of pain medication and it's easy to post here but it's a whole different
kettle of fish installing Windows and Ubuntu on the same drive.
Alias
Alias,
If your need for Windows is to just run a few Windows apps that can't be
replaced with Linux ones and they don't include things like games, then a
better solution (and much easier to maintain) is to install the free
VMPlayer from VMWare and run Windows within a virtual machine on your Linux
desktop. To be able to do this however, would require that your computer
have 512MB RAM. You could run XP within a vm or if you have a W2K license,
run that o/s within a vm, as it is alot less resource hungry and will still
allow you to run any Win32 app you require.
The nice thing about this solution to running Windows apps are the
following:
1) No need to shutdown one o/s to use the other which in itself can be a
hassle.
2) Very easy to keep your Windows o/s backed up as it just requires saving
your virtual machine files to some other drive.
3) Easy to recover from any malware that might attack your Windows o/s
simply by restoring the backed up vm.
4) No need to expose Windows to the Net as you would do all your online work
in Linux and just use the Windows vm to run programs locally, although you
can still access the Net from a Windows vm should you have a particular
reason to do so.
Anyway, that's what I recommend over dualboot, which can be such a waste of
time and not nearly as versatile as using a vm.
Cheers.
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