[Server-devel] Installing on dual boot

[Tony Pearson]

David,
We set up multi-boot for our EduBlog project, see my Wiki page:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Az990tony/edublog-beta-sw

Windows Vista may present some additional challenges.  Our Multi-boot did 
not include that.

 I have a laptop with dual boot (Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10). It uses 
the
 Windows boot loader to ask which to use on startup.I want to use the 
laptop
 on my travels for demonstrations (using a prototype active antenna). I 
used
 the Windows install feature to install Ubuntu from within Windows. In
 Windows, the space/partition allocated to Ubuntu shows up as a separate
 drive.

 Is it possible to install the XS image on top of this configuration,
  overwriting the Ubuntu OS on drive E but leaving the Windows and dual 
boot
 loader intact?




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Re: [Server-devel] Installing on dual boot

[Martin Langhoff]

Hi David!

the xs-0.4 installer will wipe your disk clean. Avoid it!

The xs-0.5 installer (wait a day or so for the formal release, or grab
the 'dev10' candidate) is pretty much a vanilla Fedora installer using
anaconda. That means that you can use the usual how to get Fedora 9
to dual boot with windows procedures published.

You can probably make it use just one partition instead of the /boot,
/ and /library set it wants. Some scripts do assume that /library is
separate when calculating user storage quotas but you're unlikely to
see any problems with that, unless you create tons of user accounts in
it (via registration).

I'm a bit out of touch as to which procedures are best, specially in
your case when you already have windows installed. One strategy I've
used in the past has been to shrink the ntfs partition and install
linux, with grub in the MBR controlling the multi-boot process.

cheers,


m

2008/11/15 David Leeming [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 I have a laptop with dual boot (Vista Business, Ubuntu 7.10). It uses the
 Windows boot loader to ask which to use on startup.I want to use the laptop
 on my travels for demonstrations (using a prototype active antenna). I used
 the Windows install feature to install Ubuntu from within Windows. In
 Windows, the space/partition allocated to Ubuntu shows up as a separate
 drive.



 Is it possible to install the XS image on top of this configuration,
  overwriting the Ubuntu OS on drive E but leaving the Windows and dual boot
 loader intact?





 David Leeming

 OLPC Coordinator, Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC) www.spc.int

 Technical Advisor, People First Network

 P.O. Box 652, Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

 Tel: +677 76396(m) 24419(h) 26358 (o-PFnet)

 http://wikieducator.org/User:Leeming



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