windows7 dual boot

[danyJ]

Hello

For those in Melbourne, nearby and in Victoria (and if you are anywhere else it still applies), Linux Users of
Victoria (LUV) runs a Beginners Workshop on the 3rd Saturday of every month at the HUB in Docklands. Its a free
event, and everyone is welcome (not just members).  Although it is not a specifically Ubuntu event, Ubuntu tends
to take a fair amount of people's time at the event.  See www.luv.asn.au for more info, including exact
location details.

The next meeting is this Saturday 16, April 11.00 to 16.00.  (although if you get there at 11 and sees noone,
just hang around a little bit, because it is not unusual for the organisers to be a bit late!!)

The kind of issues experienced by Adrian de Bruyn are among the ones which can be dealt with.

Cheers
Daniel



On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:00:07 -0700 (PDT)
Chris Robinson <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----
> 
> From: Adrian J de Bruyn <adrian at debruyn.net.au>
> To: Ubuntu AU List <ubuntu-au at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 9:08:45 AM
> Subject: windows7 dual boot
> 
> G'day all
> Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to
> install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I
> think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a
> choice.
> What am I doing wrong?
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> 
> Probably nothing you are doing.  From my reading of Ubuntu Forums, there appears 
> to be a bug in the installer in 10.10 (Very regrettable - a bad intro to a great 
> OS)
> 
> I don't dual boot with Windows so I'm unable to test it.  From what you are 
> describing it seems that grub does not get installed correctly.  One way around 
> this would be to specify the partitions manually, as this advanced mode does not 
> have any problems.  If you're going to do this I would highly recommend setting 
> up a separate /home partition because that allows you to re-install, upgrade, 
> repair etc the / (root) partition that the OS sits on at will, without risking 
> your important data and settings.
> 
> So, you would have a Windows partition (NTFS), a Linux boot partition (ext4, 
> 15-20 GB recommended), a /home partition (ext4, as big as you can spare) and a 
> swap partition (at least the size of your installed RAM recommended).  Specifiy 
> sda (first hard drive) as the device to install grub onto and it should work 
> perfectly giving you the option to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu.
> 
> If you don't feel comfortable with the more advanced manual setup, you might 
> want to try the 10.04 release which should work fine.  10.04 is the LTS (long 
> term support) release and is perfectly fine, in fact it's the most stable 
> current release and the one I recommend for newcomers to Linux.
> 
> It's also possible that you just need to install grub to the hard drive from the 
> LiveCD.  Go over to ubuntuforums.org and ask for help from the knowledgeable 
> folks over there. (Because I've never had to do it this way) 
> 
> 
> BTW, if you want to be able to access your ext 4 partitions, particularly /home 
> from windows, just install the open source ext2 driver under Windows.
> 
> Chris
> 
> 



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