Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

[Chaar]

Hello everyone. I am almost ready to move onto linux, and am really quiet excited.

I have choosen to dual-boot Vista and Linux together using http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_b...nstalled_first (I HOPE I don't have any problems). Everything looks fairly easy, expect for the commands towards the bottom. The guide explains how to install with Ubuntu, and uses the coding that Ubuntu uses (i.e. sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst_bak , sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst). Are these commands universal for all of the linux distros? Or do I need to use specific ones for Kubuntu and KDE based distros?

Thanks once again,
Chaar

[Qqmike]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

For Kubuntu it would be
kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
(instead of sudo gedit)

That opens the file /boot/grub/menu.lst with root privileges in the text editor Kate, so you can edit that file. Afterwards, save your work (File--Save, File--Quit).

The copy commands are ok, using copy, cp, for Kubuntu.

[Chaar]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

So I type kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.lst?? What about backing the GRUB up?

I am a little lost, I don't know hardly anything about working on the console.

[Qqmike]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

Yes, that's what you type. And yes, back up menu.lst just as they said there with the cp.

Command line basics (excellent! easy! basics!):
Tuxfiles: http://www.tuxfiles.org/

[Chaar]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

Yes, that's what you type. And yes, back up menu.lst just as they said there with the cp.

Command line basics (excellent! easy! basics!):
Tuxfiles: http://www.tuxfiles.org/

Awesome! Thanks so much once again.

[Qqmike]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

Since you are new to this, take your time. Your undertaking is not major, but it's not trivial either. You'll learn a lot by doing this. No hurry ... it's easy to become overwhelmed, but don't .
Go easy, study the references, write down exactly what you will do, write the commands down, print out the guide(s) etc. When done, you'll be ahead of the game. In the meantime, use the Live Kubuntu CD! That's what it's for -- use it, test the Internet, play with the word processor (OOo Writer), etc. Do you have a printer to mess with -- configure it under the Live CD session. Change your Desktop. Etc. Of course, it will all be gone after you end your live Kubuntu session and shutdown the PC (the Live Kubuntu session takes place only in RAM -- your main memory, it does not change anything on your hard drive(s)).

BTW, tuxfiles is where I learned it -- there's more than enough there to take you a very long ways!
You can add to it later (@ Herman's bigpond, psychocats, etc.). For now, just work on mastering tuxfiles.

[Qqmike]

Re: Dual Booting Vista and Kubuntu

One more thing -- I can't recall if elsewhere we gave you any GRUB references. Here's two:

How To GRUB Methods - Toolkit
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...opic=3081671.0
(and scroll down after the first post for more topics)

Bigpond, home: http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/
(a classic reference, Herman's site--See his GRUB page)

(But don't get too bogged down in GRUB stuff -- just look for and use what you need to get this job done for now.)