Got XP Back..Now what?

[Derek Broughton]

Tony Arnold wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 09:37 -0400, Richard Querin wrote:
> 
>> 1. Should I install Ubuntu on the same physical drive as XP? This is
>> the only HD shown in the list of bootable devices in my BIOS. I think
>> the problem I experienced this week in creating a dualboot system was
>> complicated (not necessarily caused) by the fact that I had tried to
>> install Ubuntu on the other physical drive and Grub didn't seem to
>> cope nicely.
> 
> I think in this situation I would have separate partitions for /boot, /
> and /home, nt to mention a swap partition.
> 
> /boot is where all the grub stuff goes and I would put this on the
> bootable disk alongside XP. /boot only needs to be tens of megabytes. 50
> megs should be enough but others may have more accurate suggestions.

I agree.  It'll definitely help to have /boot on the same device as XP.  If
you make your own kernels you might get by with a smaller boot partition,
but you need about 45M, right now, to upgrade a stock kernel from Ubuntu -
half for the old kernel, half for the new kernel, and kernels just keep
getting bigger...
> 
> To begin with I would put the root partition (/) on the same disk
> as /boot and also put the swap partition there too. I would make the
> root partition about 10 gigabytes.

I've lost track of what's where, but I'd put the swap partition on the SATA
drive, regardless.
 
-- 
derek