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Originally Posted by Raven_Writer
How dangerous is it to have a computer dual-boot Linux and WinXP?
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The most important question is, how many times have you installed linux before? Unless you've installed it a few times before, I wouldn't recommend you do it to your mom's computer.
Also, you should make a full backup, while it's normally quite safe, you don't want your mom killing you if something goes wrong.
Finally, there are some issues with the 2.6 kernel that can cause corruption of the XP partition table.
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/05/2...id=110&tid=187. Definetly make sure that whatever distro you chose has fixed (or uses a 2.4 kernel).