On 03/04/06, MJ Ray mjr@phonecoop.coop wrote:
Simon Royal s.royal@totalise.co.uk
I have two hard drives in it at present, one of which is a slave and I use to store my stuff on. If I was to replace it as it is only a 540MB drive with another bigger drive, say 2-5GB would this be enough to run Ubuntu on?
Surprisingly, Ubuntu recommend 2GB of disk space as a minimum for their standard desktop install.
I have a pretty basic Ubuntu Dapper (initially Breezy, then upgraded) install on an old laptop here..
admin@multivac:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 5.3G 1.9G 3.1G 39% /
Would installing Ubuntu interfere with booting up as I obviously want Windows to be the default boot method and have a boot menu that I could select Ubuntu on when I wanted to use it.
I would hope that Ubuntu's boot manager (Grub, with any luck) can do this simply, but I've not had Windows installed for 11 years now.
Yes, in my experience installing Ubuntu on Windows machines as a second OS installs the grub boot loader with the necessary entries for Ubuntu and the pre-existing Windows install.
I don't recall whether it sets the Windows entry or the Ubuntu one as default but that's easy to change with a tweak to the grub config in /boot/grub/menu.lst changing the line "default".
Cheers, Al.