Dual boot?

[Robert Heller]

At Tue, 7 Nov 2023 23:32:36 +0100 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 07/11/2023 23:04, Bret Busby wrote:
> > On 8/11/23 05:56, Knute Johnson wrote:
> >> I haven't had a dual boot computer in years.  My friend asked me
> >> how to set up Windows 10 and Ubuntu with dual boot.  Is that still 
> >> possible? Would somebody please point me to a good tutorial?
> >> 
> >> Thanks,
> >> 
> > It is possible, and I simply do it by following the installation 
> > procedure.
> 
> Last time I had to do this I was warned that you MUST install Windows 
> FIRST, then Linux will honour that installation. If you do Linux first, 
> Windows will simply trash it and stomp all over the boot sector.

Yes, The *last time* I dealt with a dual boot install, it was back in the 
1990s and I tried to install MS-Windows NT on a machine that already had a 
working Linux install.  It was a machine with SCSI disks and I just added a 
second SCSI disk as disk #2 (aka D:), and MS-Windows refused to believe 
there was a second disk (well, the device driver saw it, but since it was not 
C:, MS-Windows NT refused to be installed.  I had to change the disk number 
jumpers, making the new disk #1 (aka C:), then later "rescue" the Linux 
install and set up the dual boot.

> 
> But that was maybe eight years ago, and things may have moved on since then.
> 

I would doubt it.  I would also guess this is on a machine with MS-Windows 
"factory installed".  The "hard part" will be shrinking the MS-Windows 
partition.

> Peter
> 

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