Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on December 28, 2004 07:15 PM
I am multibooting WinXP, Fedora and Ubuntu. I simply reformatted my hard drive, partitioned part of the drive for NTFS leaving half the drive unformatted the reinstalled WinXP. I then used Ubuntu to create three partions hda3, hda5, hda6 formating all for ext3. I made hda3 the root partion for Ubuntu. When Ubuntu asks you if you want to install grub in the mbr say no and type in<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/dev/hda# (The # is the number of you root partions in my case hda3). I then installed Fedora to hda5. When it comes to setting up the grub You have to add Ubuntu by clicking on add selecting the drive and giving it a label.
The extra partition I plan to set up as<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/data and I will share my wordprocessing files etc. on this partions. I had a technique for doing this but have lost it somewhere. (I had this sort of setup on a desktop before with Win98, Fedora and knoppix debian.)
For newbies there is no messing around editing text files. It does show another cool thing about linux. There is often more than one way to do something.
At the end of the day "If the cat catches mice it doesn't matter if it is black or white."
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on December 28, 2004 07:15 PMThe extra partition I plan to set up as<nobr> <wbr></nobr>/data and I will share my wordprocessing files etc. on this partions. I had a technique for doing this but have lost it somewhere. (I had this sort of setup on a desktop before with Win98, Fedora and knoppix debian.)
For newbies there is no messing around editing text files. It does show another cool thing about linux. There is often more than one way to do something.
At the end of the day "If the cat catches mice it doesn't matter if it is black or white."
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