2008/9/20 James Freer jessejazza@googlemail.com:
2008/9/20 Barrys linux mail bazubuntumail@tiscali.co.uk:
Barrys linux mail wrote:
Hi.
I think i Know what i am going to do,
Put in a second Hard drive (slave?) and install ubuntu onto it.Hopefully the set up will let me partition this drive so if needed i can copy Xp to one partition if i want to(hopefully not). If i am correct ubuntu will set up a duel boot between the old hard drive and the new ubuntu one. Old Xp drive = Master, Linux Drive = Slave.If i have got this correct the only problem i can forsee is when old xp drive finally dies and i remove that drive. will this cock up the dual boot as there only be one operating system (ubuntu). Now I'm getting confused!
Barry
I'm no expert but i think you may have it the wrong way round. Switch both drives to cable select [you can make them master and slave but you would probably have to take one out so i didn't bother]. I installed XP on one drive, then swapped cable so that the XP is slave, and installed ubuntu on the other (now master). Worked perfectly on 8.04. XP needs to be slave or you have to install a grub file on windows... or something like that! Details below [no need to do any xorg editing it worked fine]. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=179902&highlight=dualboot&p...
james
Sorry i forgot about the last bit. After i had set up the dual boot i did change the xp drive when i realised that i'd rather put xp on a 10 gb drive (which i'd mislaid) than my 40gb. [I only use xp for one or two things like accessing websites that need IE]. I switched the cable so that the xp drive was master, installed xp, swapped the cable so that ubuntu drive was master again and rebooted. Dual boot worked fine - NO NEED to do anything for the ubuntu drive!
james