Dual Booting

[soccerdude]

Hi guys I want to dual-boot XP Pro and Linux Freespire or Ubuntu. Which one is better and why? I am completely new at Linux so the less commands the better I guess for me.

The second thing is I have no idea how to dual-boot so can someone tell me step-by-step how to do it?

Thanks

 

[patrickv]

ok lets assume you want easy stuff, go with Freespire, it's easy and the installer takes 8-10mins. and everything is installed by default so you are spoilt.
while ubuntu is also easy some things** are missing so you have to use synaptic package manager to update the software
to conclude they are both good, i don't want to rage a war here but in my opinion if you're new to linux go freespire and when done,move to ubuntu.

 

[brian]

to dual boot you may need your windows in fat32. i could never get it to work else wize. but the rest it should do on its own

 

[patrickv]

to dual boot you may need your windows in fat32. i could never get it to work else wize. but the rest it should do on its own

not necessarily true, my windows was ntfs
Dual booting is easy but you need to partition your hard drive properly.
In my case i chopped my 120GB to 60/60.
Since XP was already there i just installed suse on the other 60GB.i didn't do any manual partitioning in the suse setup, it did that on its own so am guessing ubuntu also does that (correct me where am wrong) but definately freespire sorts this out

 

[soccerdude]

Ok I will try it later and will let you know. Thank you