XP/Ubuntu dual-boot

[David Payne]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 06:18:53PM -0500, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> > Microsoft designs their operating system installation software to check
> > for operating systems from competitors, and will refuse to proceed with
> > the installtion process until you authorize it to erase the competitor's
> > operating system.
> 
> 
> Your kidding right? The only problem i've ever had with installing
> Microsoft second was  it erasing over my bootloader,
> which I fixed by booting from a live cd and ran grub to reinitialize it....
> 
> Is this new for vista?

Hi,

I agree, Windows has never done anything to another OS I had 
on my system.  I don't really care if it is a new "feature" 
in Vista, I don't see myself using it any time soon.  I 
have to admit, it would be very silly if it did.

If you don't have space on the system for Windows you will 
have to remove partitions that is already there before you 
can continue with the install.  I wouldn't consider that 
scanning for competitors operating systems and refusing to 
continue, that's just common sense.

If you install Linux first it just means you will have to 
reinstall your bootloader, grub in most cases.

David
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