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How to dual-boot Vista with Linux (Vista installed first) --the step-by-step guide with screenshots

James Bannan 03 March 2009, 8:00 PM

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Here's how to install Vista and Linux (with Vista installed first). St ep-by-st ep instructions that

assume no knowledge of Linux. (Now updated for Ubuntu 9.04).

- Intro

Updated 1 March 2009 fo r Ubuntu 9.04.

Scenario: You want the simp lest way to dual- boo t Vista and Linux. You've already installed Windows Vista and

now want to dual-boot it with Ubuntu 9.04

Summary of tutorial: This is an upda ted tutorial - we previously used Ubuntu 8.04. In this tutorial we'll useUbuntu 9.04, use the Vista ma nagement tools to resiz e the main partition and install Ubuntu into the freed space ,

then use the latest ve rsion of EasyBCD to reinstate the Vista bootloader

This tutorial has b een tested on a VMWare Workstation 6.5 virtual machine.

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Boot into Windows Vista and go into Disk Management - right-click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management.

Right-c lick on the main Vista p artition and select Shrink Volume - the Shrink tool will assess how much space

can be freed up. /p>

As a rule of thumb Shrink will red uce the main system partition by about 50%. As long as the partition is b ig

enough to beg in with (at least 10GB) it should acco mmodate bo th operating sys tems.

Select Shrink and the tool will reduce the vo lume of the primary partition, leav ing the rest of the d isk free as

unpartitioned space.

Once that's done, shut down the Vista machine.

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You'll need the latest desktop ISO o f Ubuntu (9.04). You can choose a list of download mirrors from the Ubuntu

website, or use this link from Planetmirror. Download the ISO and burn it to CD to create bootable Ubuntu CD.

Boot the Vista machine from the CD and select "Install Ubuntu".

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Once the Live CD has loaded, on the Welcome screen choose your language and select Forward.

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On the "Where are you" (timezone) page, select your location and then Forward.

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On the next screen, choose the appropriate keyboard layout and then Forward.

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Ubuntu will then load the d isk pa rtitioner to determine where it's go ing to be installed. Choose "Manual - use the

largest continuous free space". T his will automatically se lect the unpartitioned space we created earlier using

the Shrink tool. Click Forward.

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On the "Who are you?" screen, enter your username and password details, then click Forward.

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On the Migrate Documents and Settings screen, if Ubuntu finds any user a ccounts to migrate, feel free to import

it from Vista to Ubuntu. If it doesn't find any, obviously this isn't an option. Click Forward.

On the "Ready to install" screen, you'll se e that Ubuntu now has enough information to commence the

installation. In the summary under Migrate Assistant, it should sa y "Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)". This

means that regardless of whether Ubuntu found any user account to migrate, it certainly knows that Windows

Vista is installed on the other partition and is aware of it. Click Install.

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See the install through and then let it boot into Ubuntu.

When the install is complete the system will reboot. When the GRUB boot menu is displaye d, have a look at the

last entry in the list.

After the Ubuntu boot options, there will be an entry "Other operating systems" and benea th that "WindowsVista/Longhorn loader". By de fault Ubuntu will load itself after 10 seconds, but you ca n select the Vista op tion

and Vista will boot normally.

If you want to use the GRUB bootloader then you don't need to do anything further. Ubuntu installs GRUB into the

MBR by de fault and will happily dualboot itself and Vista.

If however you prefer to keep Vista in charge o f things, then you'll need to do a little bit of tweaking.

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Firstly, boot into Ubuntu and go to Applications --> Accessories --> Terminal. Then, type in sudo gedit

/boo t /grub /menu.lst .

This text file contains all the information GRUB uses to configure various boot options. Scroll down and the

entries between "## ## End Default Options ##" and "### END DEBIAN AUTOMATIC KERNELS LIST" are the

Linux boot options. Slightly further down is the option for the Vista/Longhorn bootloader.

We'll need these entries for use later on, so dump them out to a location acce ssible b y the Vista partition.

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Alternatively, Ubuntu can access the Vista p artition directly - go to Places - -> Computer, and double -click into

the option marked "xx GB Media". This is the NTFS Vista partition. Ubuntu will prompt for authentication (your

Ubuntu password) and then you can either copy the entire menu.lst file into it, or create a new text file on the fly,

open it with gedit and copy in the boot entries.

Then restart the machine and boo t into Vista

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Now we need the latest version of EasyBCD by Neosmart Technologies - download it here. Install the

app lication and launch it.

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First, go to "Manage Bootloade r" and se lect "Reinstall the Vista Boo tloader", then "Write MBR". This puts the

Vista boo tloader ba ck into the MBR, but the machine will only bo ot into Vista.

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To enab le access to the Linux partition, the best op tion is to install NeoGrub. Go to "Add/Remove Entries", go

the NeoGrub tab and se lect "Install NeoGrub". This adds the "NeoGrub Bootload er" option to the Vista

bootloader.

Once that's do ne, choose Configure - this launches the NeoGrub menu.lst file, location at C:\NST\menu.lst. Use

Notepad o r Wordpad to open the file, and then paste in the bo ot entries. Save and ex it, then reboot the

machine.

The system will come up with two bo ot options. Select "NeoGrub Bootloader" and then the Linux boot options

will load. Choose the releva nt option and the system bo ot into Ubuntu.

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