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[jeff_duntemann]

• Bob Halloran wrote to remind me that dual-booting Windows and Linux on a single hard drive is easy-but you have to install Windows first. When you install Linux it will see the Windows partition and configure grub so that grub will allow you to choose either OS when the

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ubuntu/kubuntu

[rkhalloran]

Jeff,

Thanks for the nod; what I do for Ubuntu/Kubuntu is install the GNOME version off the CD/DVD, do the online updates, then once it's in place, do "apt-get install kubuntu-desktop", which adds in all the KDE stuff alongside. You get an option during that install as to which window manager (gdm=GNOME, kdm=KDE) should be the default (which login screen comes up), and in the login screen for "session" that lets you pick which window manager to come up in. Just a thought.

surgery

[happy_hacker]

Best of luck with your surgery. Hope it goes in the most boring fashion possible (at least, for the surgeon) and that your recovery is as swift and painless as possible.

-Jim

[jrittenhouse]

I've had a LOT of problems with getting a dual-boot-single-drive setup to work and stay working; major overhauls of the GRUB setup via a big set of changes in Ubuntu will tend to lose track of where things are, aside of other problems.

Good luck with the surgery!

[obreerbo]

When I set up the dual-boot on my own system, I actually set it up with Linux and Windows on two separate drives, which sounds closer to what you were trying to do with Kubuntu. In my case, Linux is on the "first" physical hard drive, and Windows on the "second." I set up Linux first, then used a BIOS option to logically "switch" the positions of the two hard drives, and installed Windows on the second hard drive (that now thought it was "first"). Once I did that, I unset that option in the BIOS, giving Linux control first, then inserted the necessary statements in the GRUB configuration to chain-boot to Windows on the second drive. Windows is perfectly happy booting off the second hard drive, even if it won't let you install it there...and it "sees" its own MBR on that drive, meaning it's not likely it will kill the Linux install.

[chris_gerrib]

Good luck on your surgery!