Dual Boot

[Fehm]

Hey,
I was wondering if it was possible to Dual Boot my windows Vista with Ubuntu or Linux or the likes...

If anyone knows any information or could post some links i'd be grateful :)

Dont say google it, cus i am doing right now :P

[Inscribe]

http://wubi-installer.org/

[Mentor]

Download ubuntu, install it to its own space. It'll set up the duel boot stuff and grub. Easy as pie, just do ubuntu second :p

[Fehm]

Is it really that easy?!
I was expecting having to do loads of crap and spend hours :P
Thanks for your help guys :)

[Mentor]

Is it really that easy?!
I was expecting having to do loads of crap and spend hours :P
Thanks for your help guys :)

Naa, ubuntu is very easy to install, download the distro, burn to disk, boot from it and follow the simple steps, just make sure to tell it not to overwrite your previous stuff.

Alternately the wubi installer posted above may do the job to, though i've not used that myself.

[Fehm]

I've ordered the disk of the internet, will that work? The free one... I know it takes a while but I dont have any disks to write to atm :P

[Mentor]

I've ordered the disk of the internet, will that work? The free one... I know it takes a while but I dont have any disks to write to atm :P

Yea it'll work, that said i can take quite a while to turn up, buying a disk and burning it yourself is always the quicker option :p (wubi doesn't require a disk at all does it?)

[Recursion]

Wubi doesn't.

I usually get Ubuntu disks in under 2 weeks.

[Fehm]

Wubi Doesnt?


Right. Do I dare try Wubi?

It wont bugger my computer up will it? =]
And.. Does that allow dual boot.. how do I dual boot from the loading screen thing?
[Im new to this totally!]

[Mentor]

Wubi Doesnt?


Right. Do I dare try Wubi?

It wont bugger my computer up will it? =]
And.. Does that allow dual boot.. how do I dual boot from the loading screen thing?
[Im new to this totally!]
Basically it just sets everything up from within windows, once done you'll be greeted by grub on boot which will list all the installed operating systems. You'll get ubuntu, ubuntu safe mode, and the memory debug on top, and windows vista or whatever at the bottom :P

Its (i think) an official method so should be safe. Also means u can uninstall from within windows if u get fed up with it :p

[Suspective]

I might have a go at this. Theres so many things you can do with the Desktop PC. :P

[Blob]

This is how I dual-booted on my laptop;

Put Ubuntu on a USB stick then installed by booting from usb > logging in > install etc onto a new partition

That replaced windows MBR thingy with GRUB, so in windows i downloaded freembr i think its called that replaces your MBR, then added the linux swap partition as a new os on the mbr (using that tool - you have to download the new beta version for it to work with the new ubuntu) and now i use the windows loader for ubuntu and windows. (VISTA)