Dual Boot Vista and Ubuntu
 

Does anyone here dual boot Windows Vista with Ubuntu?

If so, what is the best way to do it...?


I already have Vista Ultimate installed and I want to install Ubuntu... I only have one partition right now.

Does anyone know of a tool to help me get this installed?

Thanks and Kind Regards...

My buddy does that. I think he just added the OS into the disk boot file. That way u can just pick which one. Just make a new parition or add another drive and install it

partition magick - that'll make it quick and easy to make a second partition which you can install a new o/s on.


I used to have XP/SuSe, and I remember one of them was partial to being installed first. Can't remember which was better to have installed first though.

there is no part. magic for windows vista

anyone here....?

I dual boot Vista and Fedora Core 6 on my laptop with a single hard drive.

All I did was shrink the partition being used by vista:

Start -> Computer -> Manage -> Storage -> Disk Management: Then right click on the vista partition 'Shrink Volume'.

After that I inserted the FC6 DVD and setup a custom partition schema on the new empty partition once I was prompted to select where and how I want to install FC6.

I then told it to boot into the Vista partition upon start up as default. I can optionally select to boot into Fedora from grub.

It's not hard to do and you shouldn't need any third party software. Just be careful not overwrite Vista by selecting the wrong partition!

I tried to shrink the volume like you said above... but that did not work.

It only shrunk it 112 megabytes...

I tried to run the Ubuntu installer and I don't see anywhere but the one partition to install it on... (the one that Vista is Already installed upon)

Please advise

And thanks.

Hey, I've never used ubuntu before not sure about why you weren't able to shrink your vista partition anymore than that either, usually it lets you choose how much you'd like to shrink it by - for the me the default was half of the available space. My hard drive is 60gb which left me with two 30gb partitions.

Is there any particular reason why you want to go with unbuntu? I've been using Fedora Core every since the 2nd release and I can't wait for FC7. It's a great OS.

Maybe you need to defrag it first? No idea how Vista handles stuff like that.