On Friday 07 March 2008, Ian W. Wright wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I have an automatic install of Ubuntu EMC2 on one computer which has two
>partitions on the drive - a /boot and a /swap. I would like to put in a
>second drive on which I already have a windows XP installation and make
>the machine dual booting with Ubuntu as the default. However, I am not
>sure how to configure it to do so. I thought it would just be a simple
>matter of altering the Grub menu.lst file and /etc/fstab to point to the
>second drive's boot sector but I can't see any way to alter them as they
>are both read only and I can't figure out how to change the permissions.
>Can someone please give me an idiots guide as to how to do it or should
>I seek an alternative way - maybe install VMware and persuade it to see
>the windows drive - again though I would need to get at fstab or mtab to
>get ubuntu to see the 2nd drive - dohhh! my fuddled brain hurts.....
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