Kubuntu Install without Windows loss...

[djwesp]

Any techies have input on how to install kubuntu without having to lose windows? I do not want to format, partition, then reinstall on the partition windows, with kubuntu on the other. I wanna keep what i have right now.

[TubaTodd]

If you do a normal k(Ubuntu) install, the installer detects the Windows partition and makes the machine a dual boot. You can make the Kubuntu partition as small as you'd like. That is the ideal way. Your other option is a wubi install. It's Kubuntu on top of Windows.

[Rick Denney]

Any techies have input on how to install kubuntu without having to lose windows? I do not want to format, partition, then reinstall on the partition windows, with kubuntu on the other. I wanna keep what i have right now.

If it's a desktop, just throw another hard disk in it and make that the Kubuntu partition, and then set up the dual-boot.

I built a computer, for fun, that can boot XP, Kubuntu, or MS-DOS (don't ask, but I had my reasons), but I set it up that way from the start. In the end, though, I never used Kubuntu--for the applications I needed, the Linux distros and applications are just not there yet. Navigation was one of those applications. Watching movies was another.

Rick "who also couldn't make the touch screen work properly under Kubuntu" Denney

[Tubaryan12]

If you do a normal k(Ubuntu) install, the installer detects the Windows partition and makes the machine a dual boot. You can make the Kubuntu partition as small as you'd like. That is the ideal way.

What he said. That's what I did on mine. The newest version (10.04) is very nice indeed.

[Donn]

If it's a desktop, just throw another hard disk in it and make that the Kubuntu partition, and then set up the dual-boot.

Or use half of it, and reserve the other half for Windows when the other disk fails.

[jhedrick]

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I built a computer, for fun, that can boot XP, Kubuntu, or MS-DOS (don't ask, but I had my reasons)

Rick "who also couldn't make the touch screen work properly under Kubuntu" Denney

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