Re: Installation to dedicated disk

On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 18:01 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote:

It is my intention to create a dual boot environment where Windows XP
resides wholly on the first disk (over several partitions, all NTFS) and
Dapper Drake ubuntu resides wholly on a second disk, again suitably
partitioned.

Here's some more advice: Don't make all your windows partitions NTFS,
especially not the one where you keep your documents. This because
Ubuntu doesn't normally write to NTFS partitions; suppose you'd want to
edit a document that's on your windows drive, then you can't do this if
it's NTFS. I currently have Windows itself on NTFS, but all documents
on a second FAT32 partition, so accessible to both Windows and Ubuntu.

Then when installing Dapper: It will overwrite your windows boot menu.
But that's okay, boot from your windows install CD, go to the 'repeair'
option where you get a console prompt and let 'fixmbr' and 'fixboot' do
their stuff.

Cheers,
Chanchao


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