Linux boot disk from CD are slow to boot up. Dual boot is very simple to do. Defrag your windows and disable swap disk (also called page file or virtual memory). Then install linux and manually allocate disk space. Split up the windows partition to make three partitions( this will shrink the windows partition size if the full HD is alloceted to windows currently): 1 for windows, 1 for linux and 1 for linux swap. After installing linux boot up windows at some point and re-enable windows swap disk.
My smaller hard drive has 1 partition for windows: 9,5 GB, 1 linux swap partition: 1 GB and linux OS (ubuntu) partition: 9 GB and the boot loader (Grub) has windows as the first choice to boot up.
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