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Dual booting with Alternative CD? Win 2000

Asked by ryan10ad

I am currently running Win 2000 Pro on a Compaq iPaq, with about 128 mb of ram, and a Pemtium 3 processer, (all guessed as Hp/Compaq dont have any records on my computer). Any way, I downloaded the 7.04 version, burned it to disk and when I boot with the disk in, the Ubuntu Boot menu comes up. I select to Run/install option. after the Ubuntu logo with bar, list of services loading, and a off white desktop, the computer goes dead twenty mins later. I found out I am using the Live CD version, and found out about the alternatve cd version. My question is do i have to partision my drive first, (i want to dual boot), then run the insallation, or will it do it for me?

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Best Justin C (jlathian-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

I'm assuming the alternative cd would be the same as a regular cd. I just did a fresh install myself only with XP and Ubuntu.

For a Dual boot, I deleted all partitions on the drive. Let my XP cd make a small partition, once that installed, I put the Ubuntu cd in the drive, and let Ubuntu install in the remaining space on the drive and it worked flawlessly. I'm sure it would work fine with the Alternative CD just with a text-based install.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/I386
There's some documentation for the installation.

If you want to make partitions a different way, there's always the gparted live cd.
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

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ryan10ad (ryan10ad-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Thanks Justin, this seems better than trying to partition the drive through windows.