Keith Powell wrote: > I see that, if I press F8 during the BIOS boot, I can select what I boot > from (different DVD drives or different hard drives). Selecting the > appropriate hard drive from F8, I think, would be better than messing > about setting GRUB up for dual booting. (Something which I don't know > how to do at the moment!) It would mean that I don't have to do anything > to the XP drive. > Grief, no... put the XP drive as master, and your blank shiny new drive as slave... boot into XP to make sure it's working and you're ready to go.
Shutdown machine and restart, booting from the Ubuntu CD. Once it's loaded click on the "Install" icon, make sure your new slave drive is selected as the install destination and sit back and let Ubuntu do it all for you. It will, eventually, ask you if you want it to put a link to XP on grub (or similar), just confirm you do and all will be sorted. There's no reason at all why you could need to "mess around" or even touch grub... it should be automatic. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
