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grub2 package

HI, I Would like to dual boot the Computer with Ubuntu and Windows Vista. I have 2 HDD one awaiting a fresh install of Ubuntu and the other with Vista.

Asked by David Wilson

Hello, I have been around and around these forums and stuff and kinda have an idea of how this should work but I have a few questions on how a fresh install works. I am a Windows OS savvy person, so I thought I would give UBuntu a try to see how this works. I have an extra IDE 120GB HDD sitting around, so i thought heck why not. OK heres my question. I want to install ubuntu on a computer using dual boot I am running Vista, the hdd I have vista on is SATA. And the 120GB HDD is IDE. Should I set the IDE HDD to master?? I think the answer would be a yes, but I am not really savvy on the whole sata thing. My motherboard has connections for both. OK moving on lets say that works. I want to repartition, reformat the 120GB HDD and install ubuntu. Would that installer that you download and burn onto a CD do all of the above? I was reading about ext3 or ext4 but i didn't see ext1 or ext2 mentioned why?? I would like to dual boot the system using vista and Ubuntu. I think the hdd I am installing to has a dead copy of windows 2000 on it with the NTFS file system. I would like to get rid of the Windows NTFS and go from there. I know a little lengthy sorry about that. a little help with a step by step install would be nice.

Thanks
Dave Wilson

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Sai Manoj Kumar Yadlapati (ysaimanojkumar) said : 		#1

Yes, that installer does all that you mentioned above.
partitioning formatting and installing can be done easily.
Download this manual and refer it.

http://ubuntu-manual.org/downloads

I'm also using two HDD.
First HDD with Windows 7 and Windows XP (dual booting) 500 GB SATA HDD
Second HDD with Ubuntu 40 GB IDE HDD.
My Master HDD is my SATA which shows windows boot loader from my SATA HDD giving choice to opt in windows 7 or xp.
I hit F10 every time at booting and choose my IDE to see the GRUB boot loader.

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Sai Manoj Kumar Yadlapati (ysaimanojkumar) said : 		#2

It is very easy to dual boot Ubuntu with Windows even both are on different hard disks.
Have a nice journey towards Ubuntu.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

If you can, make Windows disk the second one and Ubuntu the first one. Ubuntu will overwrite current MBR (first disk sector) of first disk, even if it is on second disk. If you put Ubuntu disk second one, it will not touch Windows disk, and if you want to go back to previous situation, you simply have to reset Windows disk as first one.
After boot on Ubuntu CD, choose "Install" and after "Use whole disk" (be sure Windows one is second one!) and installer will do all the jobs.

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Best Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#4

Your question is a bit all over the place :)

"Should I set the IDE HDD to master??"

You stated this would be the 2nd Hard Disk, so this setting would depend on your current system settings. You have 3 options, master, slave, cable select. If you use cable select, EVERYTHING must use cable select. If your existing hard disk is using MASTER, then the second drive should be SLAVE.

"Would that installer that you download and burn onto a CD do all of the above?"

Well you download the entire OS to an ISO and burn it to disk typically. But to answer your question, yes thats how you'd do it.

"I was reading about ext3 or ext4 but i didn't see ext1 or ext2 mentioned why??"

Progress.
If you're really interested in the history of this check this out for starters:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_system#File_systems_under_Linux

I think I got all the questions ;) Good luck.

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David Wilson (squeakydd) said : 		#5

Thanks, for all of the replies. I think I have that solved.

Thanks
Dave Wilson