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From: Kathy Taylor on 14 Apr 2010 07:14
I have a desk top computer that uses SATA hard drives. It currently has
XP Pro installed on one drive. I want to add another SATA drive so I can
dual boot with Ubuntu. What I don 't want is Grub putting its stuff on
the XP drive. Can I merely disconnect the XP drive and connect the drive
I am going to put Ubuntu on, install it and then power down and connect
the XP drive and use the BIOS to choose Ubuntu or XP to boot (my
computer will let me choose where to boot by pressing an F key)? If so,
should the Ubuntu drive be connected to the same place on the
motherboard where the XP drive is now and switch it to the second place
on the motherboard or just go ahead and install Ubuntu with it connected
to where it eventually will always be? Also, I have read that RAID might
be a problem. If so, how? I hope I've been clear.

Thank you.

Kathy Spencer
From: Michael John Ruff on 14 Apr 2010 07:28
On 14/04/2010 12:14, Kathy Taylor wrote:
> I have a desk top computer that uses SATA hard drives. It currently has
> XP Pro installed on one drive. I want to add another SATA drive so I can
> dual boot with Ubuntu. What I don 't want is Grub putting its stuff on
> the XP drive. Can I merely disconnect the XP drive and connect the drive
> I am going to put Ubuntu on, install it and then power down and connect
> the XP drive and use the BIOS to choose Ubuntu or XP to boot (my
> computer will let me choose where to boot by pressing an F key)? If so,
> should the Ubuntu drive be connected to the same place on the
> motherboard where the XP drive is now and switch it to the second place
> on the motherboard or just go ahead and install Ubuntu with it connected
> to where it eventually will always be? Also, I have read that RAID might
> be a problem. If so, how? I hope I've been clear.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kathy Spencer
Hello

Connect it to were it will always be, I run something very similiar with
4 different Operating System.

Mike


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From: Mick on 14 Apr 2010 10:13
On 04/14/2010 07:14 AM, Kathy Taylor wrote:
> I have a desk top computer that uses SATA hard drives. It currently has
> XP Pro installed on one drive. I want to add another SATA drive so I can
> dual boot with Ubuntu. What I don 't want is Grub putting its stuff on
> the XP drive. Can I merely disconnect the XP drive and connect the drive
> I am going to put Ubuntu on, install it and then power down and connect
> the XP drive and use the BIOS to choose Ubuntu or XP to boot (my
> computer will let me choose where to boot by pressing an F key)? If so,
> should the Ubuntu drive be connected to the same place on the
> motherboard where the XP drive is now and switch it to the second place
> on the motherboard or just go ahead and install Ubuntu with it connected
> to where it eventually will always be? Also, I have read that RAID might
> be a problem. If so, how? I hope I've been clear.
>
> Thank you.
>
> Kathy Spencer
Try . . . removing the first disk and installing Ubuntu on thesecond.
Reconnect the first disk.
On boot try F12 (watch for 'type Fx for boot menu)
Using Grub makes it much easier and last time I did that removing the
Ubuntu disk left the XP disk able to boot as it had done before!
From: Kathy Taylor on 14 Apr 2010 10:15
Mick wrote:
> On 04/14/2010 07:14 AM, Kathy Taylor wrote:
>> I have a desk top computer that uses SATA hard drives. It currently has
>> XP Pro installed on one drive. I want to add another SATA drive so I can
>> dual boot with Ubuntu. What I don 't want is Grub putting its stuff on
>> the XP drive. Can I merely disconnect the XP drive and connect the drive
>> I am going to put Ubuntu on, install it and then power down and connect
>> the XP drive and use the BIOS to choose Ubuntu or XP to boot (my
>> computer will let me choose where to boot by pressing an F key)? If so,
>> should the Ubuntu drive be connected to the same place on the
>> motherboard where the XP drive is now and switch it to the second place
>> on the motherboard or just go ahead and install Ubuntu with it connected
>> to where it eventually will always be? Also, I have read that RAID might
>> be a problem. If so, how? I hope I've been clear.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> Kathy Spencer
> Try . . . removing the first disk and installing Ubuntu on thesecond.
> Reconnect the first disk.
> On boot try F12 (watch for 'type Fx for boot menu)

Mine's F8, not the F8 you use to go to Safe Mode.

> Using Grub makes it much easier and last time I did that removing the
> Ubuntu disk left the XP disk able to boot as it had done before!

I'd rather not gamble on that.

Kathy Taylor
From: Mick on 14 Apr 2010 10:22
On 04/14/2010 10:15 AM, Kathy Taylor wrote:
> Mick wrote:
>> On 04/14/2010 07:14 AM, Kathy Taylor wrote:
>>> I have a desk top computer that uses SATA hard drives. It currently has
>>> XP Pro installed on one drive. I want to add another SATA drive so I can
>>> dual boot with Ubuntu. What I don 't want is Grub putting its stuff on
>>> the XP drive. Can I merely disconnect the XP drive and connect the drive
>>> I am going to put Ubuntu on, install it and then power down and connect
>>> the XP drive and use the BIOS to choose Ubuntu or XP to boot (my
>>> computer will let me choose where to boot by pressing an F key)? If so,
>>> should the Ubuntu drive be connected to the same place on the
>>> motherboard where the XP drive is now and switch it to the second place
>>> on the motherboard or just go ahead and install Ubuntu with it connected
>>> to where it eventually will always be? Also, I have read that RAID might
>>> be a problem. If so, how? I hope I've been clear.
>>>
>>> Thank you.
>>>
>>> Kathy Spencer
>> Try . . . removing the first disk and installing Ubuntu on thesecond.
>> Reconnect the first disk.
>> On boot try F12 (watch for 'type Fx for boot menu)
>
> Mine's F8, not the F8 you use to go to Safe Mode.
>
>> Using Grub makes it much easier and last time I did that removing the
>> Ubuntu disk left the XP disk able to boot as it had done before!
>
> I'd rather not gamble on that.
>
> Kathy Taylor
Then try what I suggested and use the BIOS set-up to put the preferred
boot device as default. I'm doing that now to transfer from an older
Ubuntu install to my current one. (Some problem with Timetrex on 9.10
using MySQL, so converting it to postgresql).
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