norman wrote:
Okay ill stop rambling... my suggestion is to use the Ubuntu live CD and
partition your hard-drive accordingly, and format all the partitions.
but don't install Ubuntu. I would also suggest making a 200MB /boot
partition at the beginning of the HDD. Then install Windows, check that
it works, then install Ubuntu.
That sounds good but how do I arrange for the 200MB /boot partition?
Gparted is as good a tool as any for partitioning. Booting into the live
CD there should be a menu entry labelled 'Partition Editor' under System
> Administration. With this you should be able to delete any partitions
on the disk and create new ones as you see fit. I would also recommend
having a partition for /boot, it keeps your Grub installation separate
no matter which OS you reinstall. You only need to create the
partitions, assigning them appropriate mount points (/, /boot etc) is
not necessary as this is handled by the Ubuntu installer.
To answer your MBR question, yes the Ubuntu installer will overwrite a
Windows bootloader if present on the MBR.
Tom
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