Hi I have been toying with putting Ubuntu on my eMac and dual booting with OSX. I have decided I want leave my lovely Mac well alone. Its an all-in-one machine and I would need to repartition the main drive to dual boot and my recent attempts with Yaboot have not been too successful. It would be easier to try it on my wifes PC. 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? Also how would this be affect her Windows installation on her primary drive? 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. Any help in setting this machine up to dual boot Windows 2000 - which is already installed and I don't want to mess up - and Ubuntu would be greatful. Regards Simon Royal
- The box said Windows 2000 or better, so I bought a Mac
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.
Also how would this be affect her Windows installation on her primary drive?
Not at all, although you'll need another way to boot.
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. Hope that helps, -- MJ Ray - personal email, see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Work: http://www.ttllp.co.uk/ irc.oftc.net/slef Jabber/SIP ask
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.
On 4/3/06, Alan Pope <alan.pope@gmail.com> wrote:
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".
On my Dapper install, it made itself the default, and put Windows at the bottom of the Grub boot menu. Works fine. Tim.
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