:LinuxDevCenter: Creating a Dual-Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop
LinuxDevCenter: Creating a Dual-Boot Windows XP and Ubuntu Laptop May 10, 2006, 06 :15 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (10660 reads) (Other stories by Kevin Farnham)
"Notebook computers are generally preloaded with Windows XP, but for those of us who do considerable work in the Linux environment, a Windows-only notebook is far from ideal. I worked with Unix on Windows packages such as Uwin and Cygwin for several years, but I finally decided I wanted a full Linux installation on my notebook.
"I started with my aging Toshiba laptop (which had about 90 percent of its 30GB disk filled) and, without losing any data, turned it into a dual-boot XP/Ubuntu Linux system with a shared partition where many of my user files were accessible whether I was using XP or Ubuntu..."