Installing Windows

Troy Williams troywill1 at gmail.com
Tue Aug 9 21:22:06 UTC 2005


On Tuesday August 9 2005 3:29 pm, J.Markoll wrote:
> Gabriel a écrit :
> > Hello! I have to dualboot with Windows now to be able to play some
> > games.
>
> Diverse games can be used under Linux, with Wine (winesetuptk)
> What games do you play ?
>
> > So I need to make some space for windows on my main reiserFS
> > partition (or maybe it's ext3). How do I do that?
>
> You have to save your datas, install Windows, then reinstall
> Ubuntu behind.
>
> > And how do I make windows NOT overwrite my MBR? I wanna be able to pick
> > windows in my grub.
>
> When you'll reinstall Ubuntu, Grub will take both systems in charge.
> Another solution is to install Windows on a second hdd then do mapping
> to make Windows belief he's in the first place.
>
> > Thanks"!
>
> I don't know about other solutions. In any case if it is possible,
> you would have to reinstall Grub on the MBR afterwards, as Windows
> will delete it from the MBR.
> J.Markoll.

This will walk you through the process (no need to reinstall Ubuntu):

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows?highlight=%28Windows%29
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