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    Dual booting Ubuntu Studio 7.10 with Vista

    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by orion95, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. orion95

    orion95 Notebook Consultant

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    Can anyone educate me on how to dual boot Ubuntu Studio(7.10) with Vista without annihilating my Vista setup?
     
    orion95, Feb 21, 2008
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    ChristopherAKAO4 Notebook Nut

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    Maybe a program called Wubi can help. LINK
     
    ChristopherAKAO4, Feb 21, 2008
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  3. Telkwa

    Telkwa Notebook Consultant

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    orion -
    It's not hard in the sense of needing a college degree. The maddening part of trying to describe the process in a post is the total inability to account for all the little stumbling blocks that might or might not pop up along the way.
    -How many partitions do you have on your HDD right now?
    -If you have four primary partitions (common nowadays) did you burn recovery discs?
    -Do the recovery discs appear to work?
    -Can you delete the recovery partition and push the main partition aside to make room for a Linux partition?
    -Do you have an UbuntuStudio LiveCD that you can use to take a test-drive?

    LiveCD's can be funny - I've read posts where things that did work from the LiveCD would not once installed, and the other way around too, but it's still a nice tool for checking basic compatibility.

    Do you have broadband? I don't. I googled "dual boot ubuntu studio". First hit was a video. There were many other hits after that.
     
    Telkwa, Feb 21, 2008
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