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Kirbo:
I just saw the Mac thread that got locked, and some people mentioned Ubuntu Linux. I've had the discs for a while, but I've put off installing them for one reason.

I use my laptop for work and for home, and at work (and soon enough at school) I need to have Windows, but I'd really like to try out Linux. Here's my question, is it possible to have Ubuntu on one partition, and have windows on another? If so, how do I do this. (Kind of a computer n00b, sorry).

Samari:
it's very possible.  I do something like that on my laptop right now.  usually the website for the distro or the documentation on the disc will have instructions for how to do that.  I don't have any experience with ubuntu in particular but the bootloaders that come with distros now all support dual booting.

edscoble:
do you have an external hard drive? it'd be more safer to boot Linux from the hard drive than your laptop hard drive, who know it might get corrupted? happen to me once when I made a mistake in Linux and now both my Windows and Linux partition is wonky, bastard.

Kirbo:
No, no external. I'm probably going to grab one soon enough.

decklin:
Yup! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WindowsDualBootHowTo

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