I have 2 physical hard drives. Vista is on the first. I'd like to install Ubuntu on the 2nd one, but I don't want the have the Linux boot loader on the 1st hard drive. In other words I can later delete Ubuntu easily and my first hard drive is totally unaffected. F8 when my machine first boots gets me into a BIOS boot menu where I can choose which drive to boot from - so I'd like 1st hard drive, Vista with it's own untouched boot stuff, or the 2nd drive with Linux and it's boot loader. During the Ubuntu install process, will I get the choice to put the boot loader on the 2nd hard drive without touching the first ?
Install Linux on 2nd hard drive
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Hmm.. I'm still not clear what is happening. My machine in the BIOS boots from the first drive, and I get a boot menu asking me to chosse between Linux and Vista. So clearly, the first drive HAS been changed in some way (the MBR?) which is exactly what I DIDN'T want. So if I reformat the 2nd drive, when I boot up I'll still get a boot menu ? And if I choose Vista it will boot, but the Linux links will be dead obviously ?
Ah yes, thanks ! Come to think of it, that's what I did a long time ago when I was using XP and experimented with Linux. Presumably the Vista bootable CD will enable me to run that in the same way
Yes, very nice, the 1st hard drive is back to how it was, boots directly into Vista again
I may try Linux again in a virtual machine. Last time, I downloaded an x64 version of MS Virtual PC (I run Vista x64) and the x64 Ubuntu, but when running the install in the virtual machine it said my system wasn't 64-bit... Seems only 32-bit can work in the virtual machine. Which is OK
I may try Linux again in a virtual machine. Last time, I downloaded an x64 version of MS Virtual PC (I run Vista x64) and the x64 Ubuntu, but when running the install in the virtual machine it said my system wasn't 64-bit... Seems only 32-bit can work in the virtual machine. Which is OK
