by jeff clark on Mon Dec 15, 2008 4:04 pm
Sounds like you're dual booting. I did this with one of my windows XP desktops and haven't had any problems with talons... I booted with a Knoppix Livecd and used the NTFSClone utility to copy the windows filesystem to an external drive. I repartitioned with fdisk, leaving an unformated space for linux, then wrote windows back to the HD. After booting back into windows, I inserted an ubuntu CD which apparently has an autorun file recognized by windows, and effectively installed Ubuntu from within XP (though it ran the standard ubuntu installation scripts). I'm guessing you'll be using Damn Small linux, or something more "hands-on", but I highly recommend NTFSClone...