[LUNI] Laptop dual-boot question

[Eric MacAdie]

Michael Labowicz wrote:
> On 8/31/06, *Eric MacAdie* <EKM at macadie.net <mailto:EKM at macadie.net>> 
> wrote:
>
>     Does anybody on the list ever dual-boot their laptops? Or do you
>     generally just leave them all-Linux or all-Windows? (Or
>     all-{$SOME_OTHER_OS})
>
>     Eric MacAdie
>     --
>     Linux Users Of Northern Illinois - Technical Discussion
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>
>
> Hi Eric,
> I dual boot my thinkpad T30 with Windows 2000 and Ubuntu.  These days 
> its pretty trivial to get it all working: install windows on the 
> hardrive, during the windows install - create a separate partition for 
> windows and one for linux, and then install Ubuntu (or similar) and 
> follow the prompts during that installation.  The Ubuntu installer is 
> smart enough to recognize the you have a pre-existing windows install 
> and will setup GRUB accordingly.  This may work for other distros as 
> well, but I haven't tried it yet so I can't comment on them.
>
> -- 
> Michael Labowicz
> http://www.labowicz.com/blog/ 
Thanks for the reply.

I am sure that it is probably not that difficult to dual boot. 
Especially with Ubuntu, given how many people seem to use it.

What about space? I think that is my concern about dual-booting. It 
seems like the most space you get on a laptop is 120 GB, and I am 
already using 60 GB on one of my desktops, and 100 GB on others.

Are people having disk space issues on laptops?

Eric MacAdie