Install Ubuntu on a system that already has windows XP

Daniel Robitaille robitaille at gmail.com
Sun Dec 4 09:28:36 UTC 2005


> All I can think of is, since Ubuntu is installed on /dev/hda7, it may
> be more difficult to boot because it is over the 4th partition or
> because it is like 50 GB or so into the HD... but if that's a problem,
> I think the installer should not have attempted to install grub that
> way.

I have 5 partitions on this laptop (XP/Breezy/Dapper/Kubuntu/Swap),
and the installer doesn't seem to have any problem installing Ubuntu
in any of these partitions.  But it is only a 40GB hard drive.




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Daniel Robitaille




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