Hello, 1- Does your computer start directly on Windows XP, without multiboot menu at startup of the computer, or does it start by a multiboot menu such LILO or GRUB ? if not, you should reuse the ubuntu installation disk to rerun not all the installation but only the installation of the multiboot "system" such LILO or GRUB... 1- Is your fat32 partition for Microsoft Windows XP in the first partition of your hard disk (named hda1 under linux, hd0,0 in GRUB, C: in Windows) ? because Microsoft Windows usually require to be in the first partition of the disk... In this case, you have two possibilities: a) re-install all the installation of your OSes: FIRST!: install Windows XP in the first partition, and Ubuntu in the second, your swap in the third, while Ubuntu install itself, it will automatically install the multiboot LILO or GRUB... b) install GRUB and set the parameters to make believe to Windows XP that it is intalled in the first partition (see the GRUB documentation and tutorials for this)... In french, see also lealinux, the tutorial for GRUB, or the tutorial for linux debian -Ubuntu comes from it- by alexis delattre on the web (please find the address in google with his name).
and a personal advice: If you want to leave Windows XP for linux, it is better that you do not use Windows for several months, or uninstall it... But keep Windows on your laptop if you have something to show on a big screen in an university with a "retroprojecteur": it will certainly work with Windows, I do not know with linux... Yes, linux is free as freedom, debian is free as free, but there is not linux drivers and firmwares for all the hardware, and when you cannot do a thing with linux, it can take several days to understand how to do... and if you better know the windows softwares as I do, it will help you sometimes...!!! @+ rafmav Selon Patrice Copin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > hello, > > I installed a new version of ubuntu and was quite happy for 1) the > debian system itself 2) having done this by myself. > Then, to avoid certain problems and to have the possibility "just in > case", I installed a version of Windows XP. And now, I haven't got the > opportunity to start ubuntu. What did I do wrong? > > here what a did, about: > - 3 partitions: ext3, swap (small), fat32. > - ubuntu on ext3 mount on /, and windows on fat32 mount on /windows/ > - to the question shall it install that program that permits to choose > which os, I said yes. > > thank you for answering > best regards > patrice copin > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
