rpaskudniak
July 25th, 2010, 07:22 AM
Greetings.
I have been less than active lately (which may have been a relief to some of our gurus:) ) but that's because I am breaking in a new machine - a Dell Studio XPS with 6 cores. (Not top of the line.) As before, Windows must remain my primary OS.
I have already downloaded gparted live software and Ubuntu 10.4 but the posts I have seen so far are not encouraging; it looks like installing bootable Ubuntu (on a separate partition, of course) will damage Win-7's abolity to boot and will require the Win-7 disk (which I have) to repair the boot-loader. I doubt that the Windows boot loader will be generous to Ubuntu by leaving the Ubuntu boot in place. Most intimidating I have seen is the the thread started by choosemyfate a few days ago. His biggest problem is that the grub2 boot script did not seem to automatically include the Windows boot. This may be something he omitted when installing Ubuntu in the first place (which can be avoided) or some missing intelligence in the installation process.
Some may recall I had a miserable time of it when I installed 8.10 on my previous PC. (I gave up then and took the chance again with 9.04, with success.) Can someone direct me to some fresh docs that address Windows 7 dual-booting with Ubuntu?
Thanks much.
I have been less than active lately (which may have been a relief to some of our gurus:) ) but that's because I am breaking in a new machine - a Dell Studio XPS with 6 cores. (Not top of the line.) As before, Windows must remain my primary OS.
I have already downloaded gparted live software and Ubuntu 10.4 but the posts I have seen so far are not encouraging; it looks like installing bootable Ubuntu (on a separate partition, of course) will damage Win-7's abolity to boot and will require the Win-7 disk (which I have) to repair the boot-loader. I doubt that the Windows boot loader will be generous to Ubuntu by leaving the Ubuntu boot in place. Most intimidating I have seen is the the thread started by choosemyfate a few days ago. His biggest problem is that the grub2 boot script did not seem to automatically include the Windows boot. This may be something he omitted when installing Ubuntu in the first place (which can be avoided) or some missing intelligence in the installation process.
Some may recall I had a miserable time of it when I installed 8.10 on my previous PC. (I gave up then and took the chance again with 9.04, with success.) Can someone direct me to some fresh docs that address Windows 7 dual-booting with Ubuntu?
Thanks much.