Keith Powell wrote:
> I see that, if I press F8 during the BIOS boot, I can select what I boot
> from (different DVD drives or different hard drives). Selecting the
> appropriate hard drive from F8, I think, would be better than messing
> about setting GRUB up for dual booting. (Something which I d
I have Ubuntu on my Master hard drive and XP as its slave (heh). My hard
drives in this machine are just plain old (parallel) ATA though so ymmv.
When you install Ubuntu it will automagically set up GRUB to dual boot.
If you then install other OSs or reinstall Windows then you might have
to faf
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was prematurely killed by the 'work' process.
Guys,
Many apologies for not doing much since the decision to kick off ubuntu-uk
marketing was made. I've been incredibly busy with work and have been too
tired to offer my services to anything else. My motorway journeys home have
a
Hey Chris, all
Sorry I havn't been poking my head out much, I've been snowed under
with my first few weeks at work and simply am too tired in the
evenings to do stuff. I have been keeping up with mails though and
intend to put some work back in during the weekend, including
finishing off those lea
Alec Wright wrote:
> You would just need to set the Ubuntu one as master and the XP one as
> slave (not the other way round like you suggested) and when you
> reinstall Ubuntu, it should automatically add an entry in GRUB for XP.
I do not think that it matters much whether one is master or slave (
On 26/07/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You would just need to set the Ubuntu one as master and the XP one as
> slave (not the other way round like you suggested) and when you
> reinstall Ubuntu, it should automatically add an entry in GRUB for XP.
> If not, post back on this list and
Keith Powell wrote:
> For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in
> mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and
> the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I
> wanted.
>
> I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive c
"Setting GRUB up" isn't something you generally have to do any more :)
Ubuntu installation will take care of it for you. Nowadays dual-booting has
become REALLY easy... I recommend it over switching BIOS settings, it's much
easier.
If both drives are on the same IDE cable then yes, one is master,
You would just need to set the Ubuntu one as master and the XP one as
slave (not the other way round like you suggested) and when you
reinstall Ubuntu, it should automatically add an entry in GRUB for XP.
If not, post back on this list and I'll tell you what you need to do to
add a GRUB entry.
On T
For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in
mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and
the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I
wanted.
I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive caddies and installing
both drive
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:16:37PM +0100, Pete Stean wrote:
> Hmm, that hard disc idea sounds good in principal, but then you've got
> someone who is in the position of suddenly having to worry about DOA
> products etc etc - a complete headache waiting to happen :\
> Not that I'm nay-saying or anyt
Hmm, that hard disc idea sounds good in principal, but then you've got
someone who is in the position of suddenly having to worry about DOA
products etc etc - a complete headache waiting to happen :\
Not that I'm nay-saying or anything, but in reality it sounds a bit like
hard work to me
Pete
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