Vista with Linux

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                How to dual-boot Vista with Linux (Vista installed first) -- the step-by-step guide with screenshotsage 1 - Intro
       


[color="#ff0000"]Updated 5 June 2008 for Ubuntu 8.04 and Vista SP1.
Scenario: You want the simplest way to dual-boot
Vista and Linux. You've already installed Windows Vista and now want to
dual-boot it with Ubuntu 8.04
Summary of tutorial: This is an updated tutorial -
we previously used Ubuntu 7.04 and then modified the GRUB bootloader to
force Ubuntu to recognise the Vista partition. In this tutorial we'll
use Ubuntu 8.04, use the Vista management tools to resize the main
partition and install Ubuntu into the freed space, then use the latest
version of EasyBCD to reinstate the Vista bootloader
This tutorial has been tested on a VMWare Workstation 6.0.3 virtual machine.
Page 2 - Get started - prepare the Vista partition
       


Boot into Windows Vista and go into Disk Management - right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management.


Right-click on the main Vista partition and select Shrink Volume - the Shrink tool will assess how much space can be freed up.
As a rule of thumb Shrink will reduce the main system partition by
about 50%. As long as the partition is big enough to begin with (at
least 10GB) it should accommodate both operating systems.
Select Shrink and the tool will reduce the volume of the primary
partition, leaving the rest of the disk free as unpartitioned space.
Once that's done, shut down the Vista machine.
Page 3 - Install Ubuntu
       


You'll need the latest desktop ISO of Ubuntu (8.04). You can choose
a list of download mirrors from the Ubuntu website, or use this link
from Planetmirror. Download the ISO and burn it to CD to create
bootable Ubuntu CD.
Boot the Vista machine from the CD and select "Install Ubuntu".


Once the Live CD has loaded, on the Welcome screen choose your language and select Forward.


On the "Where are you" (timezone) page, select your location and then Forward.


On the next screen, choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward.


Ubuntu will then load the disk partitioner to determine where it's
going to be installed. Choose "Manual - use the largest continuous free
space". This will automatically select the unpartitioned space we
created earlier using the Shrink tool. Click Forward.


On the "Who are you?" screen, enter your username and password details, then click Forward.


On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen, if Ubuntu finds any
user accounts to migrate, feel free to import it from Vista to Ubuntu.
If it doesn't find any, obviously this isn't an option. Click Forward.
On the "Ready to install" screen, you'll see that Ubuntu now has
enough information to commence the installation. In the summary under
Migrate Assistant, it should say "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)".
This means that regardless of whether Ubuntu found any user account to
migrate, it certainly knows that Windows Vista is installed on the
other partition and is aware of it. Click Install.


See the install through and then let it boot into Ubuntu.
When the install is complete the system will reboot. When the GRUB
boot menu is displayed, have a look at the last entry in the list.


After the Ubuntu boot options, there will be an entry "Other
operating systems" and beneath that "Windows Vista/Longhorn loader". By
default Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds, but you can select
the Vista option and Vista will boot normally.
Page 4 - Choose a bootloader
       
If you want to use the GRUB bootloader then you don't need to do
anything further. Ubuntu installs GRUB into the MBR by default and will
happily dualboot itself and Vista.
If however you prefer to keep Vista in charge of things, then you'll need to do a little bit of tweaking.


Firstly, boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. Then, type in [color="#ff0000"]sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.
This text file contains all the information GRUB uses to configure
various boot options. Scroll down and the entries between "## ## End
Default Options ##" and "### END DEBIAN AUTOMATIC KERNELS LIST" are the
LInux boot options. Slightly further down is the option for the
Vista/Longhorn bootloader.


We'll need these entries for use later on, so dump them out to a
location accessible by the Vista partition. Alternatively, Ubuntu can
access the Vista partition directly - go to Places --> Computer, and
double-click into the option marked "xx GB Media". This is the NTFS
Vista partition. Ubuntu will prompt for authentication (your Ubuntu
password) and then you can either copy the entire menu.lst file into
it, or create a new text file on the fly, open it with gedit and copy
in the boot entries.
Then restart the machine and boot into Vista


Now we need the latest version of EasyBCD by Neosmart Technologies - download it
here
. Install the application and launch it.


First, go to "Manage Bootloader" and select "Reinstall the Vista
Bootloader", then "Write MBR". This puts the Vista bootloader back into
the MBR, but the machine will only boot into Vista.


To enable access to the Linux partition, the best option is to
install NeoGrub. Go to "Add/Remove Entries", go the NeoGrub tab and
select "Install NeoGrub". This adds the "NeoGrub Bootloader" option to
the Vista bootloader.
Once that's done, choose Configure - this launches the NeoGrub
menu.lst file, location at C:\NST\menu.lst. Use Notepad or Wordpad to
open the file, and then paste in the boot entries. Save and exit, then
reboot the machine.
The system will come up with two boot options. Select "NeoGrub
Bootloader" and then the Linux boot options will load. Choose the
relevant option and the system boot into Ubuntu.
               
               
               
               
               

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