# Dual Booting Ubuntu and WinXP

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dual-booting-ubuntu-and-winxp/218046>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [March 4, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dual-booting-ubuntu-and-winxp/218046 "2007-03-04T16:26:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![hsadan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/7bcc69/32.png) [@hsadan](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/hsadan)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2007, 4:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/dual-booting-ubuntu-and-winxp/218046/1 "2007-03-04T16:26:15Z")

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I would like to dual boot ubuntu and winxp, which should I install first to ensure the boot selection works best?

Or would I have to manually modify boot.ini?