Hello,

I am trying to dual boot windows 7 with backtrack4. I am having trouble with the linux partition. I do not want to lose my windows operating system. I want to make a partition just for linux but i am not familiar and it is complicated. I am a computer networking student and trying to learn linux. Can someone please help me?

Thank you kindly,

Ant

Exactly how far along are you? What problems exactly are you having with your Linux partition? Does it boot, or do you still need to install it?

Stop. Since you ask then don't dual boot. A much better way would be to install a free virtual machine and then use it to learn how to use linux. You would have to really work to bork your windows with a virtual machine. The only way I know of is to use partitions as vm's. Maybe shared folders and a virus.


Backtrack is a poor learning tool in my opinion. It is made by hackers for hackers and could be used to do illegal things. It may have use to a very well trained user or a technical user that has a need for the tools. Law enforcement or even system admins could use the tools.