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razorboy5
July 31st, 2009, 07:55 PM
Hi

I'm running Ubuntu atm
and i really want to play one of my old favorite game (sudden attack, not many ppl heard of it)

anyways i'm planning on running XP until maybe i dual boot windows 7

so far i have gparted downloaded
not quite sure how much XP takes but i think 30GB would be enough

after that what would i do in terms of how to install XP? (never did this before)
do i just put it on a disk or make a USB then run it like i'd normally do?
and how do i know to make it install itself on the free space and not my ubuntu space

i do not have a disk but can get one and have a USB drive available atm

any tips appretiated thx

philcamlin
July 31st, 2009, 07:57 PM
download gparted from the link below :)

and follow here

see here http://www.wikihow.com/Use-Gparted

merlinus
July 31st, 2009, 08:03 PM
If I read the OP correctly, he is asking about how to install xp.

Info here:

http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_and_windows_xp_linux_instal led_first.htm

razorboy5
July 31st, 2009, 08:07 PM
thx for the link Merlinus
and gparted was in synaptic so just installed that way
hopefully it's not too troublesome :P