[clue] dual boot

[Lorin Ricker]

Yes, an Ubuntu install is pretty careful about setting up dual-boot 
if/when it encounters a disk with Win already installed.  Ubuntu will 
not only (offer to) partition things for you, but will set up grub (and 
its boot-time menus) pretty automatically for the dual-boot.  It's 
almost always recommended to have a Win-installation first, then install 
Linux (Ubuntu), rather than the other way around, because Windoze 
doesn't "get it" about dual-installs, and won't usually play nice with 
the other OS; it frequently rewrites the boot-sequence to a solo boot, 
me-first-&-only Windoze config.

I've had only good luck with it on the dual-installs I've done, so it 
seems to me to be pretty fool-proof.  Of course, your mileage may vary, 
so do be careful and alert -- back up the Windoze stuff that's 
absolutely essential (personal data) to you, just in case.  You can 
always do a scorched-earth reinstall -- of everything -- if things go 
badly wrong... but they'll likely go really right, instead.  Keep us posted.

best regards,
   -- Lorin

On 05/17/2011 07:39 AM, chris fedde wrote:
> My advice is to either resize and create a new partition on the
> current system disk using partition magic (windows) or gparted (linux)
> then do a basic dual boot install onto initial disk.  Use the second
> disk as your linux /home drive.    The Ubuntu install disk will take
> care of the re partition and install process for you pretty well and
> give you a reasonable gui to monitor the process.  I'm sure other
> distros do something similar but I have not played with others for
> quite some time.
> 
> Be sure not to stomp on the windows recovery partitions that come with
> most newer systems and create the windows recovery disk before going
> too far or you won't be able to recover from a mistake.
> 
> You don't need much space for the linux boot partition.  50G or so is
> plenty.   Use the second disk as /home.  Having /home on a different
> disk makes future linux upgrades easier.
> 
> Just my two bits.
> cfedde
> 
> On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 2:42 AM, Louis Miller <veganguy at canadaseek.com> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>        I just bought a new computer with system 7 on it. The system came
>> with a 500GB hard drive, and it won't let me swap in a smaller hard drive
>> and use the one that came with it for Ubuntu, so I want to create a
>> dual-boot. I found some instructions. They sure seem complicated. Do a lot
>> of you guys do something similar to this:
>>
>> Louis
>>
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