Installing without touching Windows partition and the MBR

[Maoplat]

Hi,
I'd like to know if it's possible to install Kubuntu without GRUB touching Windows partition and the MBR. I'd like to this from the Live CD, not the text install.
Thanks for your help.

[hlfrk414]

Re: Installing without touching Windows partition and the MBR

Hi,
I'd like to know if it's possible to install Kubuntu without GRUB touching Windows partition and the MBR. I'd like to this from the Live CD, not the text install.
Thanks for your help.

Yup, but its a long process to use the windows MBR to boot linux. This website explains how to use GAG to boot to linux from windows pretty well.
Read thoroughly before trying.

[varaahan]

Re: Installing without touching Windows partition and the MBR

By default, the kubuntu installer installs grub on the MBR.
However you can tweak it afterwards and re-install grub on the root partition of your selected drive/partition.

I prefer xosl as the boot manager and I have never seen any other boot manager which is easy to use.

Get xosl from here:

http://www.ranish.com/part/xosl.htm

Copy it in a floppy and set your bios to use the floppy drive as the first boot device.

Now within kubuntu, open up a terminal (konsole) and issue the following command:

sudo grub-install /dev/hdXX

(where XX stands for the disk/partition in which kubuntu is installed).

Now reboot with the boot up floppy in the drive and get to dos command line.
Replace the floppy with xosl floppy and cd to xosl directory.
Type install and within minutes you can have xosl installed.

Hope this works.