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want to install Xubuntu 8.10 beta along side my 8.04 gnome without booting issues

Asked by Kev

Hi all
I have XP and Hardy gnome running well at the moment and want to now play with Xubuntu 8.10 beta
I have a separate partition waiting for it but my main concern is the GRUB booting thing.... at the moment all I have is XP and Hardy..... all playing nice with each other when I boot. Will the new 8.10 rewrite the MBR and drop my hardy ubuntu and replace itself (8.10) there in stead? or do I answer a final question in the installation on 8.10 and tell it do play nice with my other distros?
Thanks for ant advice.

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Ermal Llanaj (ermal.llanaj) said : 		#1

you dont have absolutely to install Xubuntu to have it. You can just install the "xubuntu-desktop" package via synaptic and choose it at the "Sessions" when logging in but anyways if you want to install it you have different ways of not loosing grub :

1. Install Xubuntu in your partition and if grub deletes the choices of your other Operating Systems you can manually add them later editing /boot/grub/menu.lst

2. The easy way : You can use the Hardy Live CD to reinstall grub doing this commands in the live cd terminal :

sudo grub

find /boot/grub/stage1 - (copy the output of this command and add it in the line below)

root (hd?,?) - use the value that you will get from the above line - example -> (hd0,0) or (hd0,1)

setup (hd?) - use the first number from the value you got before - example -> (hd0)

quit

And restart your PC. Anyways i think you should not have to do this commands because everything will be fine after the installation.

Hope this helps. Have a good day

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