Installing Linpus on a Win XP machine

[dinb]

And now for something completely different... if I get a 120GB Win XP machine, wo0uld I be able to install linpus from somewhere? I like the simplicity of it for 75% of my use on it, but there are some specialty applications for school and work for which I would need windows xp on it as well. Any ideas?

 

[rbm@pt]

Hi,

You could find the software in the Linpus download page http://www.linpus.com/xampp/modules/myd ... php?cid=16.
Or, you could try first to see how this work the LiveCD at http://www.linpus.com/xampp/modules/myd ... php?cid=14 this is a bootable CD that don't change anything in the original hard drive.

 

[KiNG]

ive the acer aspire one recovery dvd in the drivers section ready for download

 

[dinb]

Cool thanks, do you think that the Linux might not recognize the 120GB properly? I am guessing that the recovery DVD for Linux for erase the Win Xp partition while CD in the other guys link might not?


I never ran a dual OS before, but I definitely see the beneefits to the simplicity of having Linpus as the main OS with WinXP as a backup for running speciality programs etc. If you set up two partitions, they cannnot share files between them right? ieie, if I work on a file in Open office in linpus then I would not be able to see that file if I boot into windows?

Thanks