dual booting

[Fabio FZero]

First things first: backup whatever is important to you, no matter
what -- after all, you'll probably have to repartition the drive.
Despite all the nifty interfaces and endless promises of safe
filesystem resizing, it doesn't hurt to have your bases covered.

The best way to prepare the system is to leave some unpartitioned
space and let the windows installer format it. Correct me if I'm
wrong, but I think Windows XP requires a primary partition to be
installed. Windows 7 uses a slightly different boot process which
seems to require a small boot partition besides the one where the
system will actually live, but it's best to let the installer do this
for you.

Windows will -- as always -- destroy Grub in the MBR. If Kubuntu is
still using Grub 1.x, you just need to reboot with the Live CD and
re-run grub-install. I don't know exactly how to repair Grub 2 yet,
but it shouldn't be more difficult.

FZ

On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 9:07 AM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I managed to install Kubuntu 9.10 on my laptop, the updated install CD seems
> to have fixed previous install bugs. This time the install went well.My
> audio works and I don't get a blank screen and hang after a reboot.
>
> I've usually installed Windows first then installed Linux and allowed the
> installer to find Windows to setup the dual boot. This time I am doing thing
> the other way around.
>
> So what do I need to save, backup? How to I get gurb repaired to dual boot?
> I am assuming Kubuntu 9.10 is using grub 2.0?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
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