[neodorian]

Originally Posted by shaun0207

I was trying to install Ubuntu on a computer running Vista and it went through the installation, but did nothing in the long run. I have an old NEC Mobile Pro 750c. I wonder if it could install on that?

http://www.pocketpcmag.com/_archives.../mobilepro.asp

You can install it on a Vista computer just fine. There are great instructions online for how to do this but the way I usually set up a dual boot (with XP in my case) is to use a partition manager to just break off a chunk of my hard drive and set it as a separate partition. Then I split that up into the root partition, the swap partition, and a shared partition. The root should be formatted as ext3, the swap as linux swap, and the shared as fat32 (shared partition is for sharing things between your OSes).

I know this is a half-assed explanation but if you google "dual boot Vista Ubuntu" you will be good to go. When you run the Live CD you have the option to install it and when it asks where to put the root, swap, etc you point to the partitions you just made. I know you can repartition in this installer but for some reason I always like to do that part in Windows.

If nothing else, Ubuntu is a very simple way to experiment and learn another OS and in lots of ways it's better than Windows (other ways, not so much).