Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

[Guest]

Hi everyone. I've been searching the forum for answers on dual booting Vista 64 bit with Kubuntu 64 bit. I have never used any linux OS before, but I really want to make the switch with my new computer. I need vista because I use music programs like reason 4.0 and others and have searched problems with them and linux. I just got an Asus X83vb-x1: 4 GB RAM, Intel T5800(2.00GHz) , 250 GB HDD. I found these two guides for dual booting and just was wondering if they were sufficient for dual booting vista 64 bit and kubuntu 64 bit.

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/partitioning


http://apcmag.com/dualboot

Is there anything else I should look at first? Will there be a problem of trying to access files stored on the other partition (like trying to access some files on the vista partition while I am running on Kubuntu)?

Thanks for all the help and look forward to becoming part of the Kubuntu community.

[Snowhog]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

You've found the the two (probably) best guides to use. The second link is probably the best dual-boot guide out there. Read through it first. Make notes, and if needed, ask questions on any steps you are uncertain of.

With Vista, the key is preparing the drive that it resides on (if you are going to use that same drive for installing Linux). Read through the apcmag link on this part.

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hey i tried to do that is posted in the link:
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_l...lled_first.htm

and i cant the first step

you can see the problem in the pictures that i uploaded

and one problem i have not related with that ,

i am using a program of the link:
http://www.fs-driver.org/ to get acces from the windows to the linux.

but as u can see in the picture some problem ocured,

so can somebody explain me what is happening?? ( i am not understandig well the message )
or can somebody suggets some software better than i showed

antecipadedly thanks

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

nobody has some kind of idea to answer to my question?

[vinnywright]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hay
I'm new to Kubuntu as well so someone elce mite anser better BUT I do know some grub ver. have a problem with the ext2 inod tabel and wont load them so if no uther help is avalable you mite try reinstaling Kubuntu with a diferent FS like XFS or riser and see if it helps.

VINNY

[Lost]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

electropc

maybe you can clarify what steps you took. Did you first run the code

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst.

in the terminal and that was what the screen show, or did those screens pop up after you tried to save them?

If its the case that those screens popped up when you were trying to save them all you should need to do is copy and paste the stuff you need

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hey,
thank u for your answer .
in the showed pictures i typed first sudo grub and after that i followed the instruction described in the siote:
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_l...lled_first.htm

i also tried to do the way is explained in the site:
http://davestechsupport.com/blog/200...-with-gparted/

but with no success in no one of them.
as u mention when i run first the code: sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
it says to me command not found,
when i first run the code sudo grub and after that the code : sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
is says to me unrecognized command

and like in the site :
http://davestechsupport.com/blog/200...-with-gparted/
when i run :
find /boot/grub/stage1
it also says : unrecognized comand

i dont know what to do.

[Qqmike]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

http://apcmag.com/dualboot

=> that's the bible. It should work if you follow every single detail.

psychocats is good, it is for Ubuntu, but remember that gedit is for Ubuntu;
kdesu kate
is for Kubuntu.
(or sometimes kdesudo kate)


"when i first run the code sudo grub and after that the code : sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
is says to me unrecognized command"

That's because sudo grub
gives you a GRUB prompt, like this:
grub>
But,
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
is an Ubuntu command, not a GRUB command.

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

ok i am using kubuntu i think version 8.10

so in this where i could find some site with excelent steps to follow??

i think that the commands::

- root (hd0,0)
- setup (hd0)

referer to the partition where te linux is installed, so some poeple told me that perhaps i am writing perhaps wrongly the partition...

what you think??

i have already added some info about my partitions and linux
now can somebody give me some link to some tutorial to make the dual boot?( i am talking about kubuntu )

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hey im not yet able to make the kubuntu working..

i found the link::
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...9210#msg169210

but when i run the command:
sudo kate/boot/grub/menu.lst
it sais that the command is not found

what happens??

can somebody give me some help

[JohanLingen]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

According to the info in your last screenshot, your intended linux partiton is on /dev/sda6.

This translates to "root (hd0,5)" instead of "root (hd0,0)".

Further more, the command is

sudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst

So with a space between the program (kate) and the file path (/boot/grub/menu.lst).

If you still get an error, you might want to check if kate is installed:

sudo aptitude install kate

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hi,

i have done what you mentioned in your answer and i had the erros which you can see in the attached pictures

so how to solve them??

the links to the pictures are the following:
( i wasnt able to upload them to the forum)
http://img216.imageshack.us/content....pg&via=mupload
http://img216.imageshack.us/content....pg&via=mupload
http://img216.imageshack.us/content....pg&via=mupload

[dibl]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

kdesudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

thank u for your answer
but something is yet going wrong

i wiil upload some pictures that explain my probem

so one more time iam asking you for help

[electropc]

Re: Dual Booting Vista 64 Bit with Kubuntu 8.10

hey i tried also kdesu kate /boot/grub/menu.lst
and sudo kdesudo kate /boot/grub/menu.lst

and the problem persist
what i am doing wrong??