Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-05-04 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Hardeep Singh hardeep1singh_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: --- Original message --- From: Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 27.4.'09,  23:06

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-05-04 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi Finally some sucess On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: You don't need to put the second grub on separate partition. You can safely overwrite the first grub installation. Tried this but then the second Linux OS disappears (rather its boot details)

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-05-02 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Hardeep Singh hardeep1singh_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: --- Original message --- From: Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 27.4.'09,  23:06 what you mean is i should not specify a new /boot and let the new linux os

[ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi In desperation to access the internet via my BSNL / CDMA WLL phone i reinstalled Ubuntu 7.10. I have left space for another Linux OS (probably Kubuntu 8.10 - since i have that CD) The following is my HD partitioning /dev/sda8 6.5G 2.0G 4.2G 33% / (ubuntu 7.10 root and home

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: Hi In desperation to access the internet via my BSNL / CDMA WLL phone i reinstalled Ubuntu 7.10. I have left space for another Linux OS (probably Kubuntu 8.10 - since i have that CD) The following is my HD

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: I don't think you can share /boot partition. But I have never done such type of installation so I will wait for someone else to provide insights. Ok earlier i have dual booted two Linux OS' and what i remember is

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Hardeep Singh
Ok earlier i have dual booted two Linux OS' and what i remember is that the later Linux automatically picked up the earlier os and replaced the grub loader incorporating the old, the winced and the new in the same boot loader, which i am assuming is in /boot. Not sure about what you did

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:48 PM, Hardeep Singh hardeep1singh_...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Ok earlier i have dual booted two Linux OS' and what i remember is that the later Linux automatically picked up the earlier os and replaced the grub loader incorporating the old, the winced and the new in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Dual Booting K/Ubuntu's

2009-04-27 Thread Hardeep Singh
--- Original message --- From: Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 27.4.'09, 23:06 what you mean is i should not specify a new /boot and let the new linux os install its boot stuff in the / itself and then this section would call the older grub (or