{"id":607,"date":"2011-03-18T16:02:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=607"},"modified":"2011-03-18T16:02:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T21:02:47","slug":"installing-ubuntu-10-04-with-windows-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/?p=607","title":{"rendered":"Installing Ubuntu 10.04 with Windows XP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is a ThinkPad T60 with Windows XP in the default configuration, 150GB WinXP partition and 5GB recovery partition.<br \/>\nInitially using GParted failed to shrink the Windows partition.  I ran the disk check and defragment from the C: > Properties > Tools tab.  After this GParted was able to shrink the Windows partition.  There was 40GB in use.  I shrank it to 50 and created an ext3 partition for Linux of 50 GB.<br \/>\nFor the installation, some care must be exercised to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.math.uga.edu\/~kong\/miscel.html\">prevent disabling the ThinkVantage button<\/a>.  This means not installing GRUB on the MBR, but the new \/ partition instead.  Use the manual partitioning option and don&#8217;t forget to add a swap partition twice the size of your RAM.<\/p>\n<p>Note: In the steps below, \/dev\/sda1 is Windows and \/dev\/sda3 is Ubuntu root.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Boot with Ubuntu install disk<\/li>\n<li>Select Rescue a Broken System<\/li>\n<li>Select new Ubuntu installation \/ as root and chose &#8220;execute a shell&#8221; on that file system.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The following is adapted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matthewjmiller.net\/howtos\/dual-boot-linux-and-windows\/\">Matthew J. Miller&#8217;s HOWTOs: Dual Booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows XP<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><code>cd \/mnt<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>mkdir windows<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>mount \/dev\/sda1 \/mnt\/windows<\/code><\/li>\n<li><code>dd if=\/dev\/sda3 of=\/mnt\/windows\/ubuntu.bin bs=512 count=1<\/code><\/li>\n<li>Reboot into windows:  &#8220;exit&#8221;, then choose Reboot<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/kb\/289022\">Edit the Windows bootloader<\/a> to point to GRUB by adding <code>C:\\ubuntu.bin=\"Ubuntu Linux\"<\/code> at the end of the file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You&#8217;ll now reboot into the Windows boot loader with an option to load either Windows or Linux.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a ThinkPad T60 with Windows XP in the default configuration, 150GB WinXP partition and 5GB recovery partition. Initially using GParted failed to shrink the Windows partition. I ran the disk check and defragment from the C: > Properties > Tools tab. After this GParted was able to shrink the Windows partition. There was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familytidings.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}