trdarchisit Lousy Feisty Fawn dualboot. One account I screwed over by enabling desktop effects as the very first thing I did. Had it been the only account, I'd be up a certain creek without a paddle. Thankfully, the account it imported from XP still works, even if all of the passwords I shoved in it weren't root passwords, so therefore no root account that I can see.

What I do: Get right ISO image for your system. Burn image to blank CD. (was the AMD64 livecd for me) NO USE FIRE OR MAGEY-LIGHTS! BAD! USE COMPUTER! Use Raxco Software PerfectDisk to defrag drive with Windows boot partition. Use SmartPlacement defrag option. Get coffee, soda, tea, whatever it is you drink. Maybe stick dwarf in oak cask and roll cask downhill, then mash results in cask. When done, (should take 30 mins, maybe longer if you got harddrive that be heavily frag...freg... broken up), should have nice big white space at end of blue, yellow, and red stuff. Then, use Norton PartitionMagic (I used 8.0) to resize partition you just defragged so you have nice space to put Ubuntu on. Maybe skin tiger, have nice throw rug for now-unallocated space. Should have at least 2.5GB for Linux, 256MB for swap partition. I unallocated 21.5GB. Now, stick CD in computer, reboot computer. Select first option from Ubuntu menu. If progress bar not move for long time (like say, more than time it take to kill dwarf), reboot again. This time, hit F6 when menu comes on, add "acpi=off" or "noapic" to end of line(whichever works, noapic worked for me), hit enter. When desktop visible, doubleclick Install. Congratulations! You now on the way to dualbooting Linux! When it get to point where it ask you to set up partition, CHOOSE "GUIDED - USE LARGEST CONTIGUOUS FREE SPACE". Maybe few screens later, it start installing. So get favorite axe or club and kill dwarves until done. Just be warned, I lose track of where I stuff in root password, not even sure if it gave option. All passwords I put in computers not working. DO NOT ENABLE DESKTOP EFFECTS FROM SYSTEM MENU->PREFERENCES immediately after rebooting from successful installation. You will get dreaded WHITE SCREEN OF DEATH! Should be a config file somewhere in /home or /etc someplace that will undo that, but that account just lost its GUI for now, according to www.ubuntuforums.org Your friendly Ogre --Grar 21:30, 27 April 2007 (MST)

Well, now I got Beryl working on this thing. Now, if only my laptop wasn't the piece of caca it is, so the default settings on the burn animation wouldn't appear so slow when closing anything bigger than my laundry card. Least the beam animation works just fine. --Grar 13:00, 28 April 2007 (MST)