[Novalug] CentOS/Ubuntu & now XP

[Nino Pereira]

Paul,

how, exactly, do you do this? I have a Windows XP machine that
I use only once a month, to interact with a Government web site that
absolutely, positively insists on Windows & IE (and, Firefox/Iceweasel
with PrefBar manages to circumvent most, but not all the problems).
I'd like to do backups onto that machine, and maybe use it for long
computations in the background too.

So, I'd like to install Ubuntu on this one, without messing with XP.
'Double boot', right? But, before I start exploring this, I'd like
to make sure it doesn't wipe XP or do other damage that I can't
recover from.

Thank you,

Nino


Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-01-03 at 06:50 -0800, Beartooth wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Kevin Cole wrote:
>>
>>>>         What are the odds Ubuntu will pull the same trick? Is 
>>>> anyone running both on one machine?
>>  	It did. So did Fedora. I downloaded the alternate ubuntu, 
>> but haven't gotten it to boot; call that one a coaster.
> 
> Have you thought about using virtualization to run another Linux simply
> using free space on your existing Fedora 8 system?  I did this recently
> with CentOS (and Windows XP for kicks) and it works just fine.  Now, I
> do have a 64-bit Intel C2D processor, but my understanding is that you
> can get very respectable results, especially for Linux guest machines,
> under most 32-bit and 64-bit workstations.
> 
> 
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