Various pre-install queries from potential user

[John]

Colin Watson wrote:

> 
>>Is there anything I should be aware of when attempting to install Ubuntu
>>onto a hard disk with a distro already installed? Can I have Ubuntu and
>>another distro (currently SuSE) coexist happily?
> 
> 
> Ubuntu should autodetect the other distribution during installation and
> set up a /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for it.

atm it would surely be a Good Thing if Ubuntu autodetected an overwrite 
of itself and defaulted to the same paritioning scheme:-)