dual-boot

Its been a year and i have been loving my lenovo y500. Now i have to install ubuntu on it but when i searched the interent with "installing ubuntu in lenovo y500",i saw a lot of users complaining and the installation methods were also quite complex. Its necessary for me to use linux so i...

Hello everyone!! I have got Windows Xp installed on my pc but i want to run Ubuntu also.. Pls. let me know the process.. that how can i dual-boot? Friends, I had installed Cent IS 5.5 along with xp but the problem was that the Cent os occupied the whole of my empty space on my hard disk...

I have often heard that keeping a system in dual-boot makes it run slow. Plz tell me whether this is true or not? If yes then why?

I am totally new to installation process and file system.I am using Win XP and having 4 partition (C:,D:,E:,F: ).XP being installed in C:\.I am having 40 GB HDD. I want to install Linux and want to have a dual-boot machine.How should I start. Please tell me the procedure for installing...