Vista/XP/Ubuntu Partition Question...

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On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:57 -0500, John Toliver wrote:
> 
>         I don't see how you can say "everyone", after I just gave that
>         advice.  I've 
>         done it - and more than once.
>  
> What I originally said: "Everyone, and I mean everyone I've talked to
> says you can't setup dual boot with XP being installed second" -I just
> didn't get the chance to talk to you :-) 
> 
I believe that this is due to windoz want to take the whole partition to
install. If you had multiple partitions already there shouldn't be a
problem as far as XP is concerned, vista I don't know about.

> I happened to start a thread earlier here:
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2007-December/131897.html
>  
> and I think on another thread as well but I didn't get any takers
> here...but all responses I did receive say "XP first" , which I agree
> it really shouldn't matter but, until recently, and I admit this
> wasn't an exhaustive search, all info says let XP setup finish
> (probably due to it not wanting to install itself in a dual boot
> environment and what it might do to grub etc.) 
> 
> http://www.nabble.com/problem-with-GRUB-to11733739.html
> 
>         was for a much more difficult case (boot from an external
>         drive) but the
>         principle's the same.
>         --
>         derek
> 
> I'll spend some time in this thread later thanks for the information. 
> 
> 
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