The Elvidge Family

This is a very quick summary of what I did to set up my latest dual boot Win XP Pro System and Ubuntu (on HP Mininote)
1. Install Win XP - using the disk partitioning tool at start-up. I set aside 30GB for the XP System & Programs, 2GB for the PageFile, 15GB for the Ubuntu partition (Left unformatted) and then the remaining space for a documents partition.
2. Once I had installed Win XP and made all the changes I wanted there, I made a copy of the windows partition and boot sector incase this was corrupted.
3. I used the Ubunto boot installation CD to install Linux. This only worked in the Graphics Safe Mode option . I followed the instructions provided here for the Ubuntu manual partitioning bit (slightly different in newer Ubuntu versions)
4. I used the instructions here to modify the boot menu in Ubuntu so that XP was the default operating system by default.