dual booting wind and unbutu

[rika]

i already have an instalation of winXp SP3 it is posible for me to istall unbutu on a different partion other than windows and be able to use them both without having problems with windows ?

[johnshaw1917]

When I installed Ubuntu 9.10, I chose to install it on a 2nd HDD, but at the same time, grub boot loader was installed on my primary "boot" HDD, so every time I restart my PC, I have the choice of loading either Windows, or Ubuntu.

[noaccount]

do you have enought ram? if you do you can try virtualbox or the new vmware player.
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
http://downloads.vmware.com/d/details/player_3_0/ZGp0YmQlJSpiZGVkZA==

[hellnoire]

Wind, I hope means Windows, and not MSI Wind... you won't have enough memory if that's the case. But yes, you could dual boot no problems. Under the install, it should ask you by default how you'd like to partition it, and the default should detect your Windows install, giving you a slider to decide how much hard drive space you get with both. Just click though the installer until you get to that point, to check and see. If it works, then go back, modify it to suit your needs, then proceed to install.

[rika]

i did that it works fine but how do i connect to internet if i don't know how to make a cable modem broadband connection like ppoe in unbutu

[hellnoire]

Did you try just plugging it in and going? And PPPOE Lunar covered in one of his posts... I believe it was

sudo pppoe-config

or

sudo pppoe

to set it up.

[rika]

yes it is but i found a more complete one at this and in worked https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ADSLPPPoE

[hellnoire]

Good to hear