Dual boot-linspire

[Vincent Trouilliez]

"Patrick Newberry" <PNewberry at habitat.org> wrote:
> I purchased a pc off of ebay the other day and it had linspire. I wasn't
> planning to use it but thought what the heck, maybe I'd fool with it at
> some point. When I went to install ubuntu I thought I recalled an option
> to create a dual boot. 
> 
> I did not see it so I'm thinking that it checks for windows type
> operating sytems and only give you that option when that is true.
> Correct?

Not correct ;-)
The Ubuntu installer looks for any operating system it can find, be it Windows of any kind, or other Linuxes, or even older versions of itself. For example on my machine I have Ubuntu Dapper, Windows XP, and I also installed Ubuntu Edgy (development version). When I install Edgy, it always succesfully finds Dapper and Windows XP, informs me about it, and simply asks confirmation before installing the multi-boot menu. 

So if the Ubuntu installer didn't detect Linspire, it's not a feature, it's a bug ! ....which you can file inthe Ubuntu bug tracking system.


HTH,

Vince