[ubuntu-uk] would you believe it

[Tom Bamford]

norman wrote:
>> Okay ill stop rambling... my suggestion is to use the Ubuntu live CD and
>> partition your hard-drive accordingly, and format all the partitions.
>> but don't install Ubuntu. I would also suggest making a 200MB /boot
>> partition at the beginning of the HDD. Then install Windows, check that
>> it works, then install Ubuntu. 
>>     
> That sounds good but how do I arrange for the 200MB /boot partition?
>   
Gparted is as good a tool as any for partitioning. Booting into the live 
CD there should be a menu entry labelled 'Partition Editor' under System 
 > Administration. With this you should be able to delete any partitions 
on the disk and create new ones as you see fit. I would also recommend 
having a partition for /boot, it keeps your Grub installation separate 
no matter which OS you reinstall. You only need to create the 
partitions, assigning them appropriate mount points (/, /boot etc) is 
not necessary as this is handled by the Ubuntu installer.

To answer your MBR question, yes the Ubuntu installer will overwrite a 
Windows bootloader if present on the MBR.

Tom

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