[CoLoCo] Dual-Boot WinXP/Ubuntu Advice

[Andrew]

We'll it's really not that difficult, and you'll probably be surprised when
your done.

That being said, it doesent hurt to use caution though.


When I did it, I made sure to unistall as much as possible and defragment.
That way my hard drive was as nice and clean as possible. I then proceeded
to use the alternate install disk and went with the "Guided Partitioning"
method. I chose to re-sisze Windows, and fill the empty space with the
default Ubuntu partitioning options.

after it was done... Grub was installed over the windows MBR, and gave me
options for booting both. ...I eventually felt confortable getting rid of
windows.

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It went fairly smoothly for me, even with the resizing of Windows. I think
Windows had to check for consistancy, but it still worked  fine. I have
messed with, and tried some different partitioning optins since though.

By far the easiest way of dual booting has been to give Windows it's own
(crap 5 Gig drive in my case) Hard Drive, and to set it as SLAVE.

Then to install another Hard Drive as Master.

That way Grub is installed to the Master Drive, and the Windows MBR is left
intact just in case.
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