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Acronis & Grub

Asked by Jay Geisler

How do I install Ubuuntu to a partition other than to the default (Hd0). I believe I need to have it load to another partition #9. How do I direct it there on install?

I have another bootloader Acronis OS Selector. In Redhat I simply selected another partition and then Acronis found it. It keeps getting overwritten on the default.

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) said : 		#1

There is a difference between using the normal desktop-cd of ubuntu to install and the alternate-installation cd.

The desktop-cd will always install the GRUB bootloader instead of Acronis (which will also automatically show all your Red-Hat partitions, etc.)

USING THE ALTERNATE-INSTALLATION-CD:
So use the alternate-installation-cd if you want to keep Acronis. In its setup be sure to choose 'manual' when it asks where and how ubuntu should be installed. There you can choose on which partition. You have to specify mount points. In this case the mount-point would just be '/'. Ubuntu and Red-Hat can share a swap partition though. (which you will already have since you have installed Red Had). Later on it will ask you if it should install Grub. You choose 'no' here to keep Acronis. However, Acronis will not automatically have an option for Ubuntu when you boot up, you need to ask it to update-itself. I'm not a Red Hat guy so I wouldn't know, you would need to ask them.

USING THE DESKTOP-CD:
You can use the desktop-cd if all you care about is to be able to choose between Red Hat, Ubuntu (and perhaps other OS's on your system). This is the easiest. Just boot the live-cd, click the install icon. When it asks you how you want to manage your hard-drive, choose manual. There you select the #9 partition. Right click, choose properties and choose '/' as the mount point. Make sure 'format' is checked. Then you install. After its done you reboot, you can choose between all installed operating systems.. including Red Hat and Ubuntu.

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nweissma (nweissma) said : 		#2

wrt alternate-installation: why would i NOT want to keep acronis?

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Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen (ralf-nieuwenhuijsen) said : 		#3

The only reason: because you need to make it refresh itself before it will see ubuntu.

Other than that, it all shouldn't matter. If you know how to make it refresh itself and you want to keep it, go that way. If you don't know that or don't care, just let grub replace acronis. You will be able to select any installed operating system

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