stained Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 i have mandrake on a 5gb partition and winxp on the other, can i kill mandrake and install ubuntu without killing xp installation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilikensrs Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stained Posted June 12, 2005 Author Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Rex Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Yup. ~ Proud Supporter of the Child's Play Charity! | GTANET + Child's Play ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bond996 Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Yup. Actually it will most likely overwrite it and replace it with one that has entries for Windows and for ubuntu. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Rex Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Yup. Actually it will most likely overwrite it and replace it with one that has entries for Windows and for ubuntu. Isn't that what he was asking? ~ Proud Supporter of the Child's Play Charity! | GTANET + Child's Play ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bond996 Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Yup. Actually it will most likely overwrite it and replace it with one that has entries for Windows and for ubuntu. Isn't that what he was asking? He asked if it would reconfigure it, like change the entries in the bootloader used by Mandrake to update for ubuntu instead. But I don't think it would do that, and instead install the ubuntu GRUB version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tornado Rex Posted June 12, 2005 Share Posted June 12, 2005 You certainly can. Pop in the ubuntu install cd, and when you get to the partitioner choose manually select partitions, or something like that. Then just tell it to use the partition that madrake is on. will it automatically reconfigure the boot manager? Yup. Actually it will most likely overwrite it and replace it with one that has entries for Windows and for ubuntu. Isn't that what he was asking? He asked if it would reconfigure it, like change the entries in the bootloader used by Mandrake to update for ubuntu instead. But I don't think it would do that, and instead install the ubuntu GRUB version. Oh, my bad . Must have read it wrong. Anyway, yeah, it'll do what Bond said (replace it with the Ubuntu-configured GRUB). ~ Proud Supporter of the Child's Play Charity! | GTANET + Child's Play ~ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stained Posted June 13, 2005 Author Share Posted June 13, 2005 thanks for the help Guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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