I have dual booted a few boxes with windows and linux. If windows is installed
first, and you do a default install of your favorite distro, the windows
bootloader will be wiped out. I didn't want to wipe out the windows boot
loader. So this is what I did: install grub into the partition that holds
/boot. Copy the first 512 bytes of the partition to a usb drive and call it
linux.bin or something like that. Boot into windows and copy the linux.bin file
to c:\ . Use either the window's boot loader editor tool or use EasyBCD to edit
the boot loader configuration file to add your distro to the list.
Chris
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> From: Chris Penn <cantorm...@gmail.com>
>To: SoCal LUG Users List <linuxusers@socallinux.org>
>Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2012 1:20 AM
>Subject: Re: [LinuxUsers] installing linux w/o breaking W7
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>Sorry if I was not clear. I dualbooted a few machines (laptops and
>desktops) with W7 and Ubuntu. As usually, I installed window$ first
>and then install Ubuntu 12.04, or 11.04, without issue (regarding
>installation); unity is another issue :).
>
>Chris...
>
>On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 3:07 AM, Jeff <jpli...@nobaloney.net> wrote:
>> On Sunday, May 27, 2012 12:29:14 AM Chris Penn wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Ive installed W7/Ubuntu 12.04(or11.04) a few times in the last few
>>
>>> weeks without issues. I would recommend no window7.
>>
>>
>> Need W7. I need to attend live webinars (no linux client) and I need to use
>> Citrix tools for Xen which only run on Windows.
>>
>>
>> If I didn't need Windows, I would have probably a System 76 laptop.
>>
>>
>>> If that cannot
>>
>>> be avoided, I would use the liveCD if you are trying to dualboot.
>>
>>
>> Unless you and I are thinking of different things that won't work because I
>> expect to run Linux most of the time and it won't run fast enough from a
>> LiveCD.
>>
>>
>> Unless I misread you, you say write that you have installed both W7 and
>> Ubuntu on more than one computer recently. Which way did you do that?
>>
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
>> Jeff
>>
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