Suggestions for setting up partitions for dual boot - Boot Manager

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Last response: April 14, 2008 7:04 AM in Linux/Free BSD

April 14, 2008 5:31:57 AM

Do I need a small initial partition for a boot manager?
I want to do a dual boot of Ubunta and WinXP on my laptop.

Or do I just need two separate partitions for each OS?

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linux_0

April 14, 2008 7:04:28 AM

install GRUB onto /dev/sda or /dev/hda then make 3 partitions

/dev/sda1 /boot 128MB ext3

/dev/sda2 /windows 100GB or 50% of your disk NTFS

/dev/sda3 / 100GB or 50% of your disk ext3 ubuntu partition

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