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To: FJB who wrote (67908)	1/5/2010 4:08:15 AM
From: maceng2	Respond to of 110631

What is being used as the boot manager? /edit. I definitly recommend you image your whole internal HD to at least one separate external HD before loading any additional OS's. It's a "must do" imho. It did not work for me first time either. The Hard disk was first partitioned with four primary partitions, the fourth partition (at the end of the disk) being an extended partition of 200GB. Inside the extended fourth primary partition I made two logical partitions and left about 70GB free (at the end of the extended partition). The two logical partitions and primary partitions are all formatted NTFS, the two logical partitions are used for storage for various windows applications.I loaded the OS in the following order, Win 2k, then Win XP and selected the duel boot option. I then downloaded the Unbuntu iso OS and burnt it to a CD. You can run that by itself to get the feel of Linux Ubuntu, but you can load it as a separate third OS side by side with the Windows boot loader. It can repartition your HD space by shrinking your current partitions, whatever, it creates two new partitions One large (~50GB) partition Linux Ext 3, the other small partition (~2GB) Linux swap2. They both were created in the extended partition space no problems. There was an extensive auto upgrade when I started up Ubuntu. I may want to edit GRUB soon as it now has too many options on it. Thus my system currently boots up with the GRUB boot loader that has windows duel boot loader as an option.I have Paragon partition software; it has a program that will design a boot loader for the various OS systems that I may play with at some time. The current boot load system seems to work just fine though. This msg has been typed to you from Win 2k prof.