Wednesday, October 29, 2008

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

Part 1 - Intro

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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.

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