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DFretz
May 29th, 2011, 06:23 AM
Hi all - Your advice please: My Dell Dimension 9150 has been running dual boot SUSE 11.1 and Windows XP for a while now. The dual boot capability was set up automatically as part of the SUSE installation -- I do not have the expertise to know how to do that myself. But I've been unhappy with the difficulty of configuring certain things in SUSE, like printing and Samba for sharing files with my other straight Windows machines. So I am considering replacing SUSE with Ubuntu; that is, I'd still have a dual-boot machine, with no SUSE. How hard would that be? I have SUSE in a separate partition from /home. Would the Ubuntu installer handle that, or would I need to do a lot of manual tweaking to get it to work?
Thank you!
Dan

mikewhatever
May 29th, 2011, 09:18 AM
You'll need to point the installer manually to the root and home partitions, that's about all the tweaking required. However, if you've never done it before, the task may be a little confusing.