I think we DESPERATLY need a grub/winXP newbie HowTo

[Ben Edwards]

That would be greatly appreciated, a write up for 2000 & XP maybe *g*

Could you email it to me.  I am going to consolidate everything and
either pass it onto whoever volunteers or do it myself (I don't have a
copy of XP or 2000 so this is going to be _intersting_).

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 17:09:57 -0400, Kevin Mulligan
<kevin at teamindecisive.com> wrote:
> I'm running Windows 2000 Pro which is pretty similar to XP, iirc. I got
> Ubuntu to work just fine after doing some simple partitioning with the
> Ubuntu installer, iirc it even asked me if I wanted to install over the
> Windows MBR (master boot record) or to do something else. Thanks to
> previous use with Linux and ruining my Windows install, I told it to not
> write over the MBR and to do whatever the something else is.
> 
> I could do a writeup for 2k if needed... and I just ordered an IBM
> laptop (T42 2378-FVU :-D) that comes with XP Pro, and could attempt an
> install on it once it arrives.
> 
> --Kevin
> 
> 
> 
> John Levin wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 27 Oct 2004, at 21:55, Ben Edwards wrote:
> >
> >> I have been hanging around the IRC channel a little bit as well as
> >> keeping an eye on the User List.  I am increasingly getting the idea
> >> doing a dual boot Ubuntu-WinXP install is a VERY bad idea.  I think it
> >> is something to do with the difference in which grub and windows
> >> addresses disk space - in lilo this was not a problem.
> >>
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > I think there's problems with grub on the live cd as well, which boots
> > on one of my machines but not the other.
> >
> > Anyway, I can't volunteer, as I don't have WinXP, nor much knowledge
> > of Grub. Can anyone else step up?
> >
> > John
> >
> >
> 
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