Dual Boot - jittery

[Sean Miller]

Art Alexion wrote:

> I, myself, installed Ubuntu "over" Mandrake (9.2).  Ubuntu will not
> install over a Linux distribution that it recognizes as such, so you
> have to delete the Mandrake partitions, and then allow Ubuntu's
> installer to create its partitions in the resulting unused space.


That's interesting... I had no such problems... my machine had RedHat9 
and XP co-existing, and when I started the Ubuntu installer it said "I 
want to overwrite your entire hard drive - is this okay?" (or something 
similar).... to which I said no, was shown the 4 partitions (windows, 
boot, root, swap) and then I just told it to leave the windows one "as 
is" (/dev/hda1) and format/mount the other three... which it did...

In fact, my recommendation to a friend was to install something like 
RedHat first, then let Ubuntu use the partitions it automatically 
created, which worked for them... maybe it's only *some* Linux distros 
that Ubuntu won't overwrite?

Only issue I did have was that it didn't put a link to Windows in grub, 
but that was easy enough to resolve once the installation was 
complete... the lines I had to put in menu.lst were....

title           Windows
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

Best Wishes,

Sean