Simon Royal s.royal@totalise.co.uk
I have two hard drives in it at present, one of which is a slave and I use to store my stuff on. If I was to replace it as it is only a 540MB drive with another bigger drive, say 2-5GB would this be enough to run Ubuntu on?
Surprisingly, Ubuntu recommend 2GB of disk space as a minimum for their standard desktop install.
Also how would this be affect her Windows installation on her primary drive?
Not at all, although you'll need another way to boot.
Would installing Ubuntu interfere with booting up as I obviously want Windows to be the default boot method and have a boot menu that I could select Ubuntu on when I wanted to use it.
I would hope that Ubuntu's boot manager (Grub, with any luck) can do this simply, but I've not had Windows installed for 11 years now.
Hope that helps,