Re: Installation failed
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 12:12 PM, Mark Filipak
<markfilipak.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't dare fiddle with my hard disk. It's a Dell laptop that has WinXP
> preinstalled without a maintenance partition and I don't have a backup CD.
> If the current WinXP gets trashed, I'm hosed.
If this is the case, I wouldn't go forward. I'd pull your current hard
drive, put in a new one and install to the clean drive. That way you
can experiment and get a feel for the installation procedure.
That said, I've done many installs of Debian, Ubuntu and other Linux
and BSD systems on hard drives with existing Windows installations
(and I never use a "maintenance partition" for Windows), and it always
works out fine.
But don't commit to an installation of any kind without a full backup
of your data. Clonezilla is your friend.
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