Dual Boot Setup

[waldick]

Hi, i'd like to set up a new dell p4 3.2 with a 160g hd as a dual boot machine...is there some shareware available to accomplish the re-partitioning of the drive, also, as i understand it, once i repartiton the drive to create some free space, and install linux, grub will automatically give me the option which os to boot....

any help would be appreciated...

j

[dsudduth]

Re: Dual Boot Setup

Well...you could use fips to repartition the drive--but that's a bit..rough if you're not familiar with Linux. Truthfully, if the drive has nothing on it, I would just do an OS reinstall, and make your partition for XP the size you want it, install XP and the apps/drivers you want and then install Kubuntu.

That's how I did mine.

[Gezzer]

Re: Dual Boot Setup

get a knoppix live cd distro
within the system menu is qtparted
this will do as you wish ...

[waldick]

Re: Dual Boot Setup

Thanks, i'll try that and let you know how it went....

j