Got XP Back..Now what?

[Steve1961]

I've seen people who have had problems with grub on systems that have a
mixture of scsi and ide drives, especially if they install linux to the
ide drive.  Personally, I'd use some of the space on your scsi drive.  



Create an ext3 partition, or even an unformatted partition, of whatever
size you like, but leave room for a small swap partition.  If you have
1gb ram then a 1.5gb swap partition should be more than enough.  When
you install ubuntu just mount the main partition as / and format to
ext3.  Make sure it's flagged as bootable, and when you get to the grub
install stage just let ubuntu write grub to the mbr. 



Once you're up and running you can create a fat32 partition with the
extra space on the ide drive and share it between windows and ubuntu -
see http://ubuntuguide.org/#automountfat


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Steve1961