Hi On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:18 PM, Amarendra Kumar <[email protected]> wrote: > Your Vista will be there. Just choose not to use entire disk or maximum free > space options available. Choose here: > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3630/3363131932_cac22ca5a7.jpg > > "Specify partitions manually (advanced)" > > Now you have to remember which partition you had created for "Linux > installation". Select that one from a list like below. Size should be the > clue. Do not select Vista partition. : > > http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3621/3363131936_e0e265a10a.jpg > > Create only one partition as mount point "/". I hope your RAM is more than > 2GB or even if it's 1GB it's fine. I will suggest not to create separate > /swap or /home partition. Keep it simple. > > While selecting disk for grub install. select your hard disk. should be hd0 > if there's only one hard disk connected. You will get an option for that in > advanced : > > http://news.softpedia.com/images/extra/LINUX/large/ubuntu910installation-large_010.jpg > > It will detect your Windows installation and next time you reboot, you will > get a boot menu with both the OSs. If you are able to boot into Ubuntu then > open a "Terminal" and run this command (only if it didn't detect Windows") : > (Ignore this step if Windows was in the boot menu) > > "sudo update-grub" > > I hope you should be good to go now. > > PS. that's exactly what did when installing it on a friend's system > recently.
wanted to say + 1 to what Amarendra says. ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
