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Thanks Ken - It does indeed have a burn ISO option and seems easy to use - except. I see no reason why the guidance there shouldn't be as helpful as the instructions I followed for Mint Xfce. Note too that easylinuxtipsprojects also gives a page about installing Ubuntu alongside Windows, here: My installation went exactly as set out on easylinuxtipsprojects: No I didn't create an a empty partition before I started and I used the Xfce installer. It did appear to be very XP like.Īs for creating partitions before installing and which installer I used. I can't ask him to chip in to this thread either as he is right in the middle of his final exams.
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In fact I don't really know how Mint Xfce compares to XP because as soon as I'd got it installed I handed the laptop over to my son and I've not seen it since. He did all sorts of clever stuff with it, coding in C++ and Python.Īs I said, I never tried an alternative distro so I don't know how Mint Xfce compares to Ubuntu.
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The laptop was used by my eldest son as part of his final year MSc engineering project. I don't know if an alternative distro would have worked or not, I never tried a different one but Mint Xfce did the job.
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I choose to install Mint Xfce because the from the owner of easylinuxtipsprojects was that it would be more suited to the low specs of the laptop I was using. I'll have a play around over the next couple of days, perhaps create another partition on the HDD, start again from scratch with downloading Ubuntu etc, and see what transpires. At the moment Ubuntu is saying it will reformat the drive. I've read up on the link you provided (Linux Mint? - Is that another version of Linux interface similar/same as Ubuntu?). Ken - I'm now wondering whether I need to partition my hard drive before attempting to dual install Ubuntu? My HDD has 300GB, mostly unused, and isn't partitioned. Note too how the owner of that site joined The Lounge and offered what turned out to be valuable advice. Ensure you follow the link in the to easylinuxtipsproject as I suspect all you need to know will be on there. My previous experience with Linux (old Ubuntu) has been on a tablet and a dedicated system. This will give me more flexibility is making backups and moving files around so now is the time to plan for as much as I can foresee. I have a 1TB HDD on order that I plan to install in the system on one of the SATA ports. I'm thinking that I should consider the possibility of a dual boot system at some future date, too, and plan for that eventuality when I rearrange the file systems. That will entail some file system adjustments. Is that correct? Can you show us a screen shot.Īs mentioned in another thread, I've ordered and plan to install an SSHD. With a dual boot system, I am guessing that, on start-up, the system presents you the choice of OS to start. Does that mean that it re-partitioned the drive that XP was on and created a new partition? What installer did you use, Ken? You say that the installer resized the XP partition. When it was all done I had a dual boot system.
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The installer resized the XP partition to make room for the Linux one. Stuck wrote:Are you sure the only option is to blow away the XP installation? When I installed a Linux distro on to a old HP laptop the installer allowed me to keep the XP partition. I should add that I'm operating more or less at the limit of my abilities here!! Does anyone have any ideas on how I can get Ubuntu on as a dual boot option? I'd like to be able to play around with Ubuntu in 'real time' speed before taking any fateful steps. The only option I seem to be offered when I click on 'install now', is for it to completely wipe my hard drive before installation (thus losing XP, which I don't want to do at this time). Looks interesting but as it's a flash drive version it is a very, and I mean very, slow process! Also, unfortunately, I don't seem able to find a way to have Ubuntu on my computer hard drive as a dual boot option.
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I then altered the boot sequence to boot from the flash drive and, lo and behold, I was able to 'try' Ubuntu (from the flash drive) without affecting Windows XP. Well, now many moons later I've tentatively taken a few steps in that direction - Namely, I've downloaded the Ubuntu ISO file, version 14.04.2, to the XP machine's desktop, then downloaded a boot file from to a flash drive. Many moons ago, I indicated on the lounge that as I had an old computer with XP(H) I would, at some point, try Ubuntu as an alternative.