XP and Ubuntu : Dual booting issues

[ongadabonga]

Right, so, I have had less than a day's experience with anything Linux, and I am failing miserably at actually getting it to work.

I'm still not even up to partitioning my drive.

It just doesn't want to work.

The demo version of Ubuntu worked, albeit VERY slowly when runnning off a disk, but now I can't get it to boot up. It just sort of sits on the wallpaper screen.

Is there a way to install it from inside Windows without running it like an application? I have a whole 190mb ram on the "Linux computer" so it won't be able to do a great deal of anything quickly.

It came with XP and has never been upgraded or anything

Also please note I'm not very computer savvy at all - I can't even find the damn bios screen!


Someone PLEASE point me in the direction of how to install it.

[ongadabonga]

OOH WAIT I'VE FOUND THE PARTITIONING THING

... I think.

[computerfreak4284]

You need to install windows xp first. You can use the xp CD to partition the way u want it for xp and for ubuntu. Then install ubuntu after u have installed xp. In the past when I had windows this was my setup.

Partition setup:
Windows XP: 25GB
For Linux: 25GB

Make sure when u install linux to tell it to use the rest of the hard drive and not the whole hard drive or windows will get erased.