[Solved]Q about installing second OS in dual boot on separate Primary

[wanderingarcticfox]

I have completed more research in regards to my ATI proprietary Driver. It appears that AMD/ATI only creates the drivers to be used with Gnome at this time. I am wanting to install Ubuntu X86_64 but on a different Primary partition [sda3].

My question is this; if I install 'manually configuring the disc' can I just select the sda3 partition and set as boot while leaving all other partitions as 'Do not Use' category. Will this give me a set-up of dual boot or do I need to do something extra to allow for the dual boot of partitions sda2 & sda3?

Fdisk-l output

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 1 1459 11717632 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda2 * 1459 8754 58593280 83 Linux
/dev/sda3 8754 16048 58593280 83 Linux
/dev/sda4 16049 182402 1336231937 5 Extended
/dev/sda5 16049 46443 244140032 83 Linux
/dev/sda6 46443 52521 48827392 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 52522 58600 48827392 83 Linux
/dev/sda8 58600 70758 97654784 83 Linux
/dev/sda9 70758 82915 97654784 83 Linux
/dev/sda10 82916 182402 799122432 83 Linux

df-h output

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 56G 3.8G 49G 8% /
none 7.9G 720K 7.9G 1% /dev
none 7.9G 2.7M 7.9G 1% /dev/shm
none 7.9G 92K 7.9G 1% /var/run
none 7.9G 0 7.9G 0% /var/lock
/dev/sda5 230G 458M 218G 1% /home

[vinnywright]

Re: Q about installing second OS in dual boot on separate Primary

short answer ...yes

just set sda3 as / and leave the rest alone ........install grub to sda3 if you want Kubuntu to keep controlling the boot ........or install grub to sda if you want Ubuntu to take over the booting of the box and whatever other distros you install.

if you leave Kubuntu in charge.......after you install Ubuntu boot Kubuntu and run

sudo update-grub

and Ubuntu will now apear in the boot menu.

VINNY

[wanderingarcticfox]

Re: Q about installing second OS in dual boot on separate Primary

Thanks Vinny, I appreciate the double check; makes me less nervous
I am sure you see the 250GB /Home and I know from what you taught me earlier to just name the Ubuntu the same and then the two can share 8)

Solved; just configuration and stuff to go now