[Sussex] Dual boot Ubuntu

[Diego Moore]

On 6/19/05, Rupert Swarbrick <rupert.swarbrick at lineone.net> wrote:
> Thomas Adam wrote:
> 
> I dunno... Both my desktop and laptop survived. But then again, the only
> problem if they hadn't would have been licensing issues with
> reinstalling XP - I'd backed up all data (or none, in the case of laptop
> as there wasn't any yet) and had all the program CDs.
> 
> I would strongly suggest backing up as there is always the possibility
> of something going wrong. Or a power cut! (Again, not such a problem
> with the laptop)
> 
> So if you have XP and want linux, I'm afraid you have very little choice :)
> 
> Best of luck, all the same!

I second that.

With laptops I always make sure that there is a second partiotion
(helps when you need to reinstall Windows, just dump you backup onto
the second partition). I did not notice it with this new laptop and
did not have a copy or PartitionMagic. So I took the risk for using
QParted from the latest Knippix...

It went wrong!

The laptop had no data so I only lost 4 hours worth of
restoring/patching/installing/rebooting.

Diego