re dual boot Kubuntu 8.0.4/Ubuntu 8.0.4

[Alan]

On Saturday 09 August 2008 6:01:21 pm Ray Burke wrote:
> Sirs,
>
> I am trying to dual boot my current system which is-
> 1/ Hddo drive c 80gb xp pro sp3
> 2/ hdd1 drive d 40gb me
> so I want instructions on how to make my drive d hdd1 40gb Mesystem as
> replaced with dual boot Kubuntu 8.0.4/Ubuntu 8.0.4 , thus keepingmy xp pro
> sp3 on Hdd0 drive c, so I can have a dual boot Hdd0 xp pro sp3on drive c
> 80gb and Ubuntu drive d Hdd1 40gb, can you help,as not sure where I load up
> the iso disc I made of the Kubuntu/Ubuntu onto whatcurrent systems on
> either xp pro or Me, and does it pickup that I have twoseperate
> drives???????????? ray
> _________________________________________________________________

Very easy to do.  
1- Hardware Setup
BACKUP ANYTHING YOU WANT TO KEEP.  Write down exactly how everything is connected, masking tape is 
useful.  Open up your computer and make your ME drive the primary and the XP drive the slave.  I am 
assuming these are IDE drives.  If so don't forget to change the jumper pin between the power 
supply and the ribbon.  Reboot your machine to make sure that is back together correctly and the 40 
gig drive is primary.  
If you don't want to do that and have SATA drives, change the boot order in the BIOS to CD, HDD1, 
HDD0 so that the disk you want to install *buntu on is first.
2-Software setup
Take your iso file that you made and burn it *at 4X* as an *image*.  If you just do a data copy you 
will not get a bootable CD but a shiny drink coaster instead.  Reboot and install on your 40 gig 
(newly) primary hard drive.  
Recomended partition sizes 
-root (/) - 8 gig at beginning of disk
-swap area - 1 gig at end of disk
-home (/home) - everything else

Linux plays nicely with others, it will recognize other drives.  You can even mount your entire XP 
drive to be seen and worked with in Kubuntu but that takes a little doing (edit fstab).

There are other ways to get this done but when you use this method there is no need to edit any 
files and have it just work.  What will happen is that when you start your machine you will go 
into 'grub'.  That is Ubuntu's boot loader and will give you a list of either Ubuntu (Kubuntu shows 
as as ubuntu) or XP to start up.  Post again if you need anything else.


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