On 12/31/2010 10:01 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 15:23 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 13:04 -0500, Douglas Pollard wrote:
Hi Folks, I have xp on my first drive and Ubuntu Studio on the second.
I have a partially installed Kodak easy share program that crashes xp
and I have been told that I will have to reinstall xp. I can't remove
the Kodak program. As I remember Xp will wipe out Ubuntu if I
reinstall it. Is this correct ?? Thanks Doug
No this is bullshit, assumed that XP offers you to be installed on any
first partition.
It might be, that the XP boot loader will overwrite GRUB in the MBR. If
so, copy the MBR first and restore it, by using a Linux live CD, after
Windows is installed. Then run 'update-grub' by your Ubuntu Studio, that
should include a chain loader entry for XP, to your GRUB menu.
To copy the MBR run
sudo dd if=/dev/sda of=MBR bs=512 count=1
Don't re-partition anything, before you'll restore the MBR.
Instead of sda enter the wanted HDD.
to restore the MBR run
sudo dd of=/dev/sda if=MBR bs=512
to be safe you might wish to copy your Ubuntu Studio before you
reinstall XP.
> From a Live CD or another Linux install run
sudo -i
cd to_the_root_directory_of_your_Ubuntu_Studio
tar czf /path_were_the-backup_should_be_stored/name_of_the_backup.tar.gz
*
Note: Shell globbing is tricky, the * will cause, that hidden files only
will be copied inside folders of the root directory, but not for the
root directory itself.
Hth,
Ralf
First I want to thank everyone for the help. My son who understands
windows better than I do and I worked half the night New years eve on
trying to repair XP using the XP cd to do the repair. It failed.
Finally we disconnected the 2nd drive that is the one Ubuntu Studio is
on to reinstall xp. That didn't work as for some reason we couldn't
get the first drive to run?? We reconnected the second drive and
installed XP in the first drive. I went upstairs to take a bath while
my son was was installing sp3 and stuff in xp. When I came back down
Ubuntu was gone. I think my son may have tried to reinstall grub using
an Ubuntu 10.04 cd and not knowing much about Ubuntu screwed up and
installed it. So at this moment I have Xp and Ubuntu 10.04. Good thing
I had all my data saved on an external hard drive:-)
I will likely Just go into synaptic and install the Ubuntu Studio
programs and desktop.
The first time I installed way back maybe 3years ago I couldn't get
Cinelerra to work in Studio I guess because it was a different kernel.
I don't know if there is still that difference or not but I have had
some sound problems that I never quite worked out when using Cinelerra
in Studio. I will try the regular Ubuntu program for a while before
changing over to Studio. I really don't need studio for doing my video
but I like playing with the audio programs and have been having a good
time with them.
Anyway thanks for the help. Doug
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