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i guess my next question would be why do u still use a modem? are you located somewhere where cable or DSL is not available? since it seems you spent a couple $$$$ on your computer? Also did you check out that link i sent you for ubuntu. it proved very helpful to me

Yes, another alternative would be buying a non-winmodem modem. I have never used a modem with linux so I'm not much help here.

umm well ive never used XEN, ive looked into it, one thing you could do is run a share drive on your computer, something running Fat32 like 20 gigs or so, and then dual boot windows XP and run Ubuntu. Or you could run like VMware but that wont help with the modem. So if you dual boot you can still connect and also have your linux box for normal work.

If you can get XEN to would id like to get some input on how well it works.

I agree with the previous poster, Your best option may be to dual boot Windows/Linux and share files on a fat32 filesystem (on the hard drive or a flash memory card)

a very simple partitoning scheme for an 120G hard drive might look like:

/dev/hda1 - 80G windows NTFS
/dev/hda2 - 10G share fat32
/dev/hda3 - 4G linux swap
/dev/hda4 - 26G linux ext3

I would install windows first (on an 80G partition) and partition and install the rest later during the linux install. Also in the past i have installed windows on one entire hard drive, and linux on another. If you have a current windows install and don't want to lose it you can change the size of the NTFS partition using PartitionMagic (although partitionmagic is not free).

Good luck, let us know what you decide to do and how it works out.

pshrk,

SwissKnife found HERE!! is quite a nice app and it is FREE...

I used it to partition my notebook for a dual boot of Centos and WinXP.

It is a non-destructive partition shrink similar to what partition magic does too.

Just remember that any time you shrink a partition instead of overwriting it you must defrag first and you are still not guaranteed against data loss.

I once shrunk a partition (after defrag) and I lost the ability to print in windows

You say that, i tried to load the linux bootloader onto the master and it still keeps coming up with the windows bootloader and no option fro ubuntu. Damn it.

I am married with children! There ain't much I can do on carnival that has anything to do with half-naked beauties, booze...

I installed in on one of my 2 IDE drives and running windows off my 1 master SATA drive. Ubunta asked me which drive to install the bootloader onto and I said hd0. Maybe this is where I'm going wrong. Linux looks great IF I can get it too load up. Had fedora but wasn't a huge fan.

Although rebuilding a Windows MBR is a fairly simple and quick process, I also prefer not to mess with it.

What I do is - at the time of installing Linux - disable all other drives, so Linux will only see its drive and add the MBR to it.

Then I re-enable all drives, and adjust in the BIOS what is the default boot HD.

To dual, triple, tetra, etc, boot, I use the BIOS boot selection menu (usually the F12 key, or F8 in my Asus mobo). I then choose the HD whose MBR will be loaded.

Having Linux manage the boot menu of all OSes installed was neat until BIOS could assume that role. I believe it's safe using the BIOS boot menu, because that way all simultaneous OS installations remain totally independent from each other and there is no problems with boot loaders (NTLDR, Grub, Lilo, Limal, etc).