The best advice I can give in your situation is to install VMWare player
or virtualbox and have at it as a virtual machine. Once you're
comfortable with whatever flavor of Linux you choose, you can (later on)
either dual-boot or do a complete switch to a Linux environment.
Until then, virtual machines are the 'safest' bet without heavily
risking the integrity of an already existing machine.
(I realize that 'integrity' and 'Windows' is an oxymoron in some
circles, but that's a different discussion.)
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Gandolf
On 11/10/2011 03:32 AM, Mikesla wrote:
> I just got Ubuntu (32bit version), and I'm a bit out of my comfort zone here
> because I have been using nothing more than Windows.
>
> I am using Windows 7 (32 bit), and I want to install it. Now I already tried
> it via booting from the cd (demo) only without installing the software. Before
> I install it in it's own partition (drive D) I am wondering if I install it in
> Windows 7 first will this damage my ability to boot back into Windows?
>
> I guess what I am wanting to say is that if, and when I decide to do a full
> install, and I uninstall it from Windows 7 will it hurt my main boot file?
>
> I'm very new to this whole linux thing, and I just don't want to damage my
> system in any way.
>
> Can you folks also tell me some of the do's, and don'ts before I take this o
n?
>
> Thanks ahead of time.
>
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