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calmpey09
May 6th, 2009, 11:52 AM
hello... i just want to ask what to do first when dual booting xp to ubuntu... thank you

edwardTheGreat
May 6th, 2009, 11:59 AM
My favourite resource is right here:

http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2006/05/08/dual-boot-laptop.html

calmpey09
May 6th, 2009, 01:47 PM
do i have to back up my files in xp before installing the ubuntu??

Bartender
May 6th, 2009, 03:15 PM
If you've done this sort of thing before, maybe. If you haven't, definitely.

edwardTheGreat
May 7th, 2009, 01:29 AM
do i have to back up my files in xp before installing the ubuntu??

If you have things that you don't want to lose - Yeah!

But the only reason you would lose any data is if you aren't sure about creating/resizing/deleting partitions and/or if you accidentally install ubuntu to the wrong partition overwriting your data.