Windows 7 & Ubuntu dual boot question

[JonnyBlaze]

Right now I'm running Windows 7. I have 5 hard drives in my system. One of them is from my old box and has a 60gb partition containing Windows XP. This drive wasn't in the system when I installed Windows 7 so theres nothing about xp in the boot loader.

What I want to do is install Ubuntu on the 60gb partition currently containing xp. What I don't want is it to modify my Windows 7 drives at all. I would like to just choose that drive from the bios boot menu when I want to run Ubuntu. Is this possible without disconnecting the other drives during the Ubuntu install?

Thanks

JB

 

[ViRGE]

IIRC, in the advanced options for the Ubuntu install there's an option to control where you want the bootloader installed. You should be able to tell it to install GRUB to a different drive than whatever Ubuntu is going to default to.

 

[KeypoX]

When you install ubuntu, it will put grub on that drive, same drive as ubuntu. The install is pretty clear where its installing grub.

It wont mess with any other drives, but it will detect other OS's and add them to grub. Including but not limited to xp, vista, 7 and osx.

Also you wont be able to install on a ntfs partion. You will have to repart it. But the ubuntu installer can do all that for you.

 

[JonnyBlaze]

Thanks guys.

I plan on installing it tonight.