[ale] installing Ubuntu on a Windows system

[Geoffrey]

aaron wrote:
> On 2009, Oct, 07, , at 2:10 PM, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>> Asher Vilensky wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Please help me with some rust here.  It's been a while.
>>> We have a Vista laptop (Gateway something).
>>>
>>> 1.  I want to install Ubuntu on it in a new partition.  Using  
>>> Windows,
>>> how can I tell if I can further partition the disk or if Windows
>>> occupies it all?
>>>
>>> 2.  Assuming I can indeed partition and install Ubuntu on the 2nd
>>> partition, when I boot the system, will it allow the user to boot  
>>> either
>>> Ubuntu or Windows?  How is that done?
>> Just did this with Vista.  You need to use the Vista disc tool to  
>> shrink
>> the Vista partition.  Google Vista+linux+dualboot and you should get
>> what you need on the specifics.
> 
> How does he insure that the windisease and manufacturer "recovery"
> schemes don't destroy his new partition and boot configurations?
> 
> That stuff has bitten me whenever I've tried to keep the windisease
> colony as boot option instead of just fsck-ing it, though I'll admit
> that this has only been twice. :-)

My experiences are that it will trash the grub boot, but leave the 
partition intact.  You simply boot from a handy Linux disk:

1. mount the linux partition(s)
2. chroot /linuxpartition

/sbin/grub-install /dev/???

And the magic returns.

> 
> peace
> aaron
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Until later, Geoffrey

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