Dual boot

Nicklancer · 04-23-2006, 02:17 AM

How may i dual boot for ubuntu and winxp?

ursahoribl · 04-23-2006, 11:57 AM

There are a number of posts in this forum dealing with dual booting ubuntu and windows. There are a number of references to this site for how to do the dual boot: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/.

You might want to read through the posts on dual booting in this forum to see what other recommendations you find.

**Bartender** · 04-25-2006, 12:43 AM

nick -
I followed hermanzone's "Ubuntu + NTFS" directions to dual-boot W2K & Ubuntu. Worked like a charm. Made a FAT32 partition that they can both share. You can't write to NTFS partitions from Linux w/out making a mess of things!
Back up irreplaceable data 1st! There are no guarantees when you're doing brain surgery on your PC.
Also, do some research on fstab. I had to type in one line to make Ubuntu recognize the FAT32 partition. This was a really simple operation as far as that sort of thing goes but a little scary if you've never done anything like that before.
Gobs of posts on the Ubuntu Forums
http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php
regarding dual-boot. After the MaximumPC article a few months ago seems like there was a slug of people asking about dual-boot and other beginner's steps.
Do you have an old PC you can practice with? I did my dual-boot on an old PC that had no valuable data, just a fresh copy of W2K. Not so nerve-wracking that way.

04-23-2006, 02:17 AM	#1 (permalink)
Nicklancer Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 17 OS: Win XP	Dual boot How may i dual boot for ubuntu and winxp?

04-23-2006, 11:57 AM	#2 (permalink)
ursahoribl Registered User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 8 OS: winxp/suse linux	Re: How may i dual boot for ubuntu and winxp? There are a number of posts in this forum dealing with dual booting ubuntu and windows. There are a number of references to this site for how to do the dual boot: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/. You might want to read through the posts on dual booting in this forum to see what other recommendations you find.

04-25-2006, 12:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
Bartender Mentally divergent Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Chehalis, WA, USA Posts: 1,285 OS: W2K, Ubuntu 8.04	nick - I followed hermanzone's "Ubuntu + NTFS" directions to dual-boot W2K & Ubuntu. Worked like a charm. Made a FAT32 partition that they can both share. You can't write to NTFS partitions from Linux w/out making a mess of things! Back up irreplaceable data 1st! There are no guarantees when you're doing brain surgery on your PC. Also, do some research on fstab. I had to type in one line to make Ubuntu recognize the FAT32 partition. This was a really simple operation as far as that sort of thing goes but a little scary if you've never done anything like that before. Gobs of posts on the Ubuntu Forums http://ubuntuforums.org/index.php regarding dual-boot. After the MaximumPC article a few months ago seems like there was a slug of people asking about dual-boot and other beginner's steps. Do you have an old PC you can practice with? I did my dual-boot on an old PC that had no valuable data, just a fresh copy of W2K. Not so nerve-wracking that way.