DaveDoesIT
June 2nd, 2008, 02:27 AM
Hi people,
I am positive this has been asked about a zillion times, but my searches proved futile. My searches got hundreds of results so thought I would badger you experienced guys one more time.
I have a desktop PC with w2k-sp4 on it and would like to dual boot Ubuntu, actually Kubuntu. Can someone please point me at a good tutorial on the process?
I am so new to Kubuntu the disk has not yet arrived in the mail. I am however a programmer of some 30+ years experience so wandering around the dusty portals of the PC architecture holds little fear for me.
I would appreciate some pointers on where to start with the dual boot set up. I have read so far that Linux needs to be located in the first 1024 Cylinders on the hard drive. This may not be possible as my w2k has been in use for 4 years and a new partition would almost certainly be created well beyond that 1024 Cyl. mark. Is that a problem?
Thanks
Dave
I am positive this has been asked about a zillion times, but my searches proved futile. My searches got hundreds of results so thought I would badger you experienced guys one more time.
I have a desktop PC with w2k-sp4 on it and would like to dual boot Ubuntu, actually Kubuntu. Can someone please point me at a good tutorial on the process?
I am so new to Kubuntu the disk has not yet arrived in the mail. I am however a programmer of some 30+ years experience so wandering around the dusty portals of the PC architecture holds little fear for me.
I would appreciate some pointers on where to start with the dual boot set up. I have read so far that Linux needs to be located in the first 1024 Cylinders on the hard drive. This may not be possible as my w2k has been in use for 4 years and a new partition would almost certainly be created well beyond that 1024 Cyl. mark. Is that a problem?
Thanks
Dave