Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 17:27, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> I have seen people with problems on Launchpad Answers. If GRUB
>> is on the USB drive you will always need the USB drive attached to
>> boot BOTH Ubuntu and Windows 7. If you have no way to put back
>> the original MBR
On 2 February 2010 17:57, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
> It all depends on how you do it. A standard dual boot installation will
> overwrite the MBR with GRUB's MBR that points to the partition with
> GRUB on it. As I said, if you rely on the machines own boot menu,
> you are OK. Its all about which dr
On 2 February 2010 17:27, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
> I have seen people with problems on Launchpad Answers. If GRUB
> is on the USB drive you will always need the USB drive attached to
> boot BOTH Ubuntu and Windows 7. If you have no way to put back
> the original MBR, you will have problems if, fo
On 2 Feb 2010 at 13:28, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>
> On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote:
> >
> > Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader?
> >
> > Rob
> >
>
> It does if you tell it to. :)
>
> At this point:
> http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4
Keith Powell wrote:
> My new, rather expensive, computer has only one hard drive and that has
> Windows7 pre-installed with a 'rescue partition'.
>
> Now, the insurance/support policy I have on the new computer (I didn't
> bother with one on the old machine) states that I can't modify the
> co
On 2 February 2010 12:32, Keith Powell wrote:
> In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by
> me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP
> installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on
> it, but ended up with Ubuntu).
>
> M
Quoting Jonathon Fernyhough :
> On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote:
>>
>> Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader?
>>
>> Rob
>>
>
> It does if you tell it to. :)
>
> At this point:
> http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4_standard.jpg
> click on Adva
On 2 February 2010 13:20, Rob Beard wrote:
>
> Does it install Grub on the USB drive bootloader?
>
> Rob
>
It does if you tell it to. :)
At this point:
http://www.23hq.com/23666/2589704_71fcf7da2c7eb3cf8c9b085bc69889c4_standard.jpg
click on Advanced and you can choose where to install GRUB.
Jo
Quoting Jonathon Fernyhough :
> This should be trivial. Just choose the USB partitions during setup,
> make sure not to set up any of the internal partitions with mount
> points, and at the end just before Install choose to install the boot
> loader to the correct drive (under Advanced).
>
> Reboo
On 02/02/10 12:32, Keith Powell wrote:
> I don't want to try dual booting by putting Ubuntu on the same hard
> drive as Windows7, but would rather keep it separate. My thoughts are to
> install it on an external USB hard drive.
Creating separate partitions on a physical HDD and dual booting (Whic
I've done this too. Worked fine for me.
Bruce
On 2 February 2010 12:57, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 2 February 2010 12:36, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
> wrote:
> > Quoting Keith Powell :
> >>
> >> To clarify, I would like to actually install Ubuntu on the drive, not
> >> use the drive as a U
On 2 February 2010 12:36, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
wrote:
> Quoting Keith Powell :
>>
>> To clarify, I would like to actually install Ubuntu on the drive, not
>> use the drive as a USB version of a liveCD.
>
> I'm sure it's do-able, as long as you can boot from USB in the BIOS
This should be tri
Quoting Keith Powell :
> In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by
> me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP
> installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on
> it, but ended up with Ubuntu).
>
> My new, rather expensive
In my previous computer (built locally and modified over the years by
me), I had fitted a second IDE hard drive. The first drive had XP
installed and the second had Linux installed. (I tried other distros on
it, but ended up with Ubuntu).
My new, rather expensive, computer has only one hard dri
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