fedora ubuntu dual boot

[Tim Tebbit]

freeburn wrote:
> i currently have jaunty in my pc. i want to install fedora now. what
> should be the procedure to follow? 


Wrong list, but this is mostly a grub [1] question so here goes.

Find/make at least 1 free partition.
Point fc installer at it.

When it asks about grub, make sure it has found the other OS, ubuntu in
this case. It should, and the defaults will probably be okay.

Before you take off on this quest you should probably grab and burn a
copy of SGD [2] in the event you screw it all up. The ubuntu install
should be fine as long as you didn't overwrite the partition(s) it
resides on. But grub might have no clue about where it lives. You'll be
able to easily get it repaired with SGD.

If you do trash grub, which is a possibility, don't get discouraged. You
should probably have some understanding of how it all works in the first
place if your going to be playing around with multiple OS's anyhow.

You could always make a backup of your current MBR with dd [3],
# dd if=/dev/sd* of=/place/to/store/your_mbr.bin bs=512 count=1

and restore with,

# dd if=/place/to/store/your_mbr.bin of=/dev/sd* bs=1 count=64 skip=446
seek=446

[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GrubHowto
[2] http://www.supergrubdisk.org/
[3] http://linux.die.net/man/1/dd