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Firefoxfanphill:
Heh, I'm a linux newb completely but I'm wondering, I want to have Ubuntu on a dual boot, though I have no idea how to do it, or how safe this is.Considering that my parents would in all respects kill me if I deleted everything.
Furthermore I'm wondering  how easy it is to do and how fast etc.If anyone can point me to the right way that would be great.

Also I have this common problem with the resolution settings and moniter settings but I'm wondering are these fixes for Ubuntu or the LiveCD to?

Orethrius:

--- Quote from: Firefoxfanphill ---Heh, I'm a linux newb completely but I'm wondering, I want to have Ubuntu on a dual boot, though I have no idea how to do it, or how safe this is.Considering that my parents would in all respects kill me if I deleted everything.
Furthermore I'm wondering  how easy it is to do and how fast etc.If anyone can point me to the right way that would be great.

Also I have this common problem with the resolution settings and moniter settings but I'm wondering are these fixes for Ubuntu or the LiveCD to?
--- End quote ---

Don't do a dual-boot if there's any question about your ability to handle bootmanagers whatsoever, especially if your parents use the PC.  I doubt they'd appreciate a "99 99 99" error on every boot.  It would probably be a good idea to use the LiveCD here.  That being said, both LILO and GRUB are quite easy to set up for a dual-boot situation, but it might help to have you boot to a LiveCD anyway so we can figure out which partition (hda1, hda2, hdb5, whatever) hosts your OEM operating system.  A simple df command should help with this, but feel free to ask myself or WMD from another PC once you're logged in under a LiveCD (ask a friend or use a university PC if you just have the one PC).

What kind of trouble are you receiving from the monitor resolution settings?  Is the screen size incorrect, is the resolution too high or low, or something else?  It's not quite so straightforward to fix these issues, but it's definitely do-able.

Firefoxfanphill:
Thank you for responding!

Unfortunately I am not a ahem student at a university in fact I'm going to start high school soon.Anyway. I have the all so usual problem of well Ubuntu not noticing my hardware (I guess?) and booting up in 640*468 (or something) and 60hz which is... unbearable. I did find a fix, I didn't read it all and was about to print it, then my printer got messed up and I can't find the site where I got the nice simple fix. So I looked threw the forums on Ubuntu and well, I'm extremely confused :-P.

Jenda:
Sorry fffph, but I can't help you. I can point you to the Ubuntuguide.org, though, and that should be able to help you partly, and then I'm sure I saw a LOT of debate on resolution on the Ubuntu Fora.

choasforages:
moniter and resolution problems? perhaps x11 is not setup correctly, please post your X11 config file, its typically in the /etc/x11 directory, but i cannot for the life of my remember its name. not to mention most of my machine are down save for one right now. so i can't exactly have a look, im going to be getting a spare toy machine within a week or so.

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