I am a LINUX / UBUNTU user, at the moment I am 100 % Ubuntu - however I do have the requirement occasionally to access Windows. My question is - how can I install Windows XP - ( I have the boot / Prog CD ) on the same machine and retain UBUNTU.
Not much point asking the windows boys.. they won't know.. Install it on a secondary drive with the linux drive disconnected (because M$ stuff respects nothing) then edit the boot/grub/menu.lst file to allow dual booting by adding Code: title M$ whatever crap it is root (hd0,0) ##or (hd1,0) depending on location of windows## savedefault makeactive chainloader +1 That trick can be used as many times as you have bootable os installed.. OR.. try vmware One machine locally boots debian, puppy, sabayon, dos (for flashing 360's) and 98 for old games that need fat32 filesystem.. hehehe
Thanks for the reply - I have a remote USB 250 GB OMEGA hard drive. is there some way that I can use this ????? can I just change the boot sequence from the boot menu or can I somehow disable my internal "C " Hard drive.so that Windows is saved on the remote. ??? sorry if I seem stupid but am a complete newbie to this sort of thing !
You can use an external HD to boot another OS, I have done it before. I didn't have a probelm dual booting ubuntu and vista, but of course I did it with 2 internal HDs. The grub boot loader took away the windows one, and it would automatically ask me which OS I wanted to boot in. Make sure that you have that external HD plugged into your computer when ever you boot up your computer, or else it won't load any OS (I deleted the ubuntu OS by accident). To fix the microsoft boot loader, put in your vista disc and go to repair (left of install). Go into the command prompt repair and type in "bootrec.exe /fixMBR" without quotes. EDIT: I am running ubuntu right now as my only OS and using VMWare when i need to do something in windows, why don't you just do that?
Sorry Guys, to interrupt I am using Vista 64bit, but I want to migrate to Ubuntu 64bit by not giving up vista. I read about vmware, but as I am totally new on the subject, it sound to me a bit like Urdu language! How am I supposed to install it? I have checked the homepage and made some research, but it is still not clear for me. Should I use vista as host or better if Ubuntu is the host OS? How difficult is it for a newbie to make it work? Thanks for any help!
Hi Guys two responses here :- first one to c ? Mertin, thanks for this just what I want to do can you tell me where to find V.M.Ware - will give it a go. and now to Fanatic - I had windows as my op system, I downloaded the UBUNTU CD- then followed the instructions as in :- www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing this details fully how to install a Dual-Boot with windows and Ubuntu. I have since removed Windows and am 100% Ubuntu - but need on very rare ocasions to use a windows scenario
@dyffo Thanks for your advice, however I'd like to make a VM, I think it is a bit differ from a dual-boot PC. Here you can download VMware-server:
@dyffo Thanks for your advice, however I'd like to make a VM, I think it is a bit differ from a dual-boot PC. Here you can download VMware-server: www.vmware.com/download/server/
@dyffo Thanks for your advice, however I'd like to make a VM, I think it is a bit differ from a dual-boot PC. Here you can download VMware-server: http://www.vmware.com/download/server/
Hi - O.K. so I have downloaded Vm - extracted and saved file, I now have an Installer file with a Lock emblem on it - this I can't open !! so any ideas on how to install this Vm package ????? - I am getting very frustrated at trying
Just to say thast I now have successfully downloaded and installed " Virtual Box " not been easy but we are up and running. VERY GOOD programme.
I am sticking with UBUNTU 99 % of the time and booting up XP as and when I need it through Virtual Box - much the same as you are doing through V.M.. I find that Virtual Box is much more versatile than V.M. in fact I also have Windows 98 on there as well - some good stuff runs on this !!!!
