Partitioning a disk for dual booting

Pandora wrote:

Dual booting Ubuntu and Vista has been dealt with in other threads but
I can't Google an answer to my question:

The problem you have is that micoshaft PISTA is inferior technology
and doesn't know hot to dual boot into Linux. Unlike Linux which does.

So you can dump micoshaft corporation's PISTA with immediate effect and go
with superior technology like Linux.

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If you are really desperate to PISTIFY your computer, then
you can run up PISTA in a virtual machine inside Linux using free
software like Qemu, Virtual box, or supported products like VMWare
and focus on getting PISTA running in a window and transfer files
between PISTA and Linux applications. That way, you begin to lose
the need to PISTA altogther and focus more on data interchange
and interoperability instead of micoshaft data lock in crap thats got
all your data by the balls. e.g. One million users a week are switching to
Open Office www.openoffice.org to flee micoshaft data lock in for all their
word processing and spread sheet data. Its just fantastic the Open Office
thing!

A third alternative is to use a different machine for your PISTA
and exchange files through networking using something like winscp
to transfer data securely without the dangers of PISTIFIED computers
on the network snooping in on your data.
You can get a fairly decent computer for $200 these days.