JJZolx;312985 Wrote: > Thanks. So just install Linux first? Anything special to do during the > installation process?
Let me start with a disclaimer. I have no experience with Ubuntu, but I have been doing dual boot machines for many years and this is what I do assuming clean hard drives: 1) Start Linux install, when it gets to the part about setting up file systems, I use fdisk (in Fedora, I do a Ctrl+Alt+F1/2/3 to get to a terminal) and I partition my drives the way I want. I also set the partition types. You don't have to do this, but I like fdisk. Make sure you write the changes to the disk. Stop here -- all I'm doing is getting to fdisk to setup partitions. 2) Reboot and install Windows. 3) Reboot and install Linux on the other partitions (not the Windows partition!) 4) During the Fedora installation you are asked for other partitions to boot from. I add Windows. 5) Reboot into the OS of your choice. The reason I do part of Linux and then Windows and then finish Linux is that Windows always overwrites the boot partition so if you install Linux first and then Windows, you'll lose Grub and won't be able to get back into Linux. If I install Windows first, I have to use the MS partitioning tool which I do not like. Brad -- jbmillard ********************************************************** * Brad Millard JBM Small Arms Ballistics * [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.eskimo.com/~jbm ********************************************************** ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jbmillard's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=18121 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=48998 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
