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Old 01-19-2007, 01:17 PM   #1
Mike Carter
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Dual Booting


I want to dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu, and I'm a bit worried about doing so as last time I tried to Dual Boot with Suse it mucked partition table and was only able to boot up into Suse and not Windows.

Will this happen with Ubuntu?

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Old 01-19-2007, 01:28 PM   #2
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Maybe. I'd say probably not. But when it does it's nearly always fixable by fiddling with the bootloader config file in linux.
 
Old 01-19-2007, 11:52 PM   #3
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The Ubuntu installer will normally detect you have windows installed and configure itself automatically to dual-boot. Even if it doesn't there are howtos on the Ubuntu help site https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WindowsDualBoot
and plenty of live help on the #ubuntu channel on irc.ubuntu.com (irc.freenode.net)
 
  


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