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
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