[Edit] Sometime after I originally wrote this HOWTO: I came to my senses and realised that the M1330 is far too cool for school and hence should not be disabled by running any version of Windoze. I have since reformatted my M1330 and it now only runs Ubuntu. If you have any kind of choice in the matter then I would heartily recommend you do the same! If you really need a dual or triple boot then hopefully this guide and the comments should help.[/Edit]
So - got a shiny new Dell XPS M1330? Good choice, you’re obviously smarter then the average bear - but now do you want to lose the Dell bloatware and see how it runs with a grown up OS? Perhaps you need to keep Vista on though for some reason, and that media direct button for quick playing DVDs is nice too… plus it would be nice to be able to share your Mozilla Firefox bookmarks and Thunderbird profiles between the 2 OSs. The solution for you my friend is a funky triple boot installation.
What we start with: A shiny new Dell XPS M1330 just out of the box with Vista + ton of OEM crap preinstalled.
What we end up with: An XPS capable of triple booting into either Ubuntu, Vista or Media Direct from the MD button and the ability to share files between the two OSs.
What we will need: Vista install disk, Ubuntu live cd, Dell drivers and utilities disk, Dell media direct cd.
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