On 14/05/12 13:41, Liam Proven wrote:
That is true and correct, AFAICS, but to be honest, it would probably be easier just to reinstall. Norman: at a minimum, you need 2 partitions. I suggest you shrink the Windows partition by about half and use the rest of the space for an Extended partition. In there, you put the Linux logical drives.
Liam, go back to the beginning of this problem. The Ubuntu installer insists (probably quite reasonably) on wanting to have Windows on one drive, and Ubuntu on the other. Norman wants both OS's dual booting on /dev/sda There are only two ways to achieve this. One is to disconnect /dev/sdb temporarily while installing Ubuntu, and the other is to partition manually. This is what Norman has been attempting; it's just that he installed grub to the partition instead of installing it onto /dev/sda
What you suggest above is actually what Norman has done already. Regards, Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
