Welcome to the dark side, Daniel.<br><br>Mwahahahahaha!<br><br>Usually, the best route to do the dual boot is to install windows to a pre-shrunken partiton and then do the Linux install. There are some tools that will shrink the existing blunders XP crap (Linux based, of course) but there are limits based on where the bastards from Redmond park the "immovable bits" used to key your system into the borg main collective (they are the green strips on the defrag tool in blunders).<br>
<br>That said, there is some magic foo required in the grub settings to boot windows and I don't have a dual boot box to pull it from any more. Google up "dual boot grub". This one looks like a Ubuntu tutorial on the needed steps.: <a href="http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm">http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm</a><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 9:52 PM, Daniel Howard <<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
James Taylor wrote:<br>
> It's not open source, but I'd recommend Moneydance. I guess it<br>
> depends on how extensively he uses the advanced features. -jt<br>
><br>
Actually, he says the data he entered will only take him a few minutes<br>
to reenter, seems like he just started using it, so I downloaded GNUCash<br>
and we're playing with it now, and he says it looks great.<br>
<br>
Would still like to know how I FU'd his Win XP...should I have used a<br>
(groan) windows partitioner (e.g. PartitionMagic) to partition his win<br>
NTFS drive first, then installed Ubuntu? May have to try this again<br>
sometime...<br>
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