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darkjh

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Registered: 2011-10-21

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Questions before installation

Hi everybody,

I've been using Ubuntu but it crashed during upgrade to 11.10 so good reason for me to change to Arch. Right now on my computer it's a dual boot win7 and ubuntu with grub 2, configured automatically when I installed Ubuntu.

Questions:
1. If I just install Arch on the partitions of Ubuntu without a new partitioning, will I lost the data in my /home?
2. For grub, during Arch installation if I put it on /dev/sda then it'll automatically replace the grub2 that I have now? And the win7 chainloader will not be lost if I decomment correctly the lines in the grub configure file?

Thanks in advance!

toad

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Re: Questions before installation

1. That depends entirely on your partitioning. Since you haven't provided us with the info we cannot tell
2. You may want to check os-prober for automatic recognition of other OSs. You'll find it in the AUR.

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darkjh

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Re: Questions before installation

My partitions for Ubuntu is /,/home,/tmp in ext4 et /swap
Can you tell me more about the os-probe? I should use it after the installation?

Thanks your responses.

Last edited by darkjh (2011-10-21 20:33:33)

toad

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Re: Questions before installation

I am not familiar with Gnome and even less so with Ubuntu but you could try to keep your /home as is and see whether the different Gnome versions don't throw up all over...

As for os-prober - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GRUB2#Dual-booting

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oboedad55

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Re: Questions before installation

My partitions for Ubuntu is /,/home,/tmp in ext4 et /swap
Can you tell me more about the os-probe? I should use it after the installation?

Thanks your responses.

Have you looked at the wiki? Might be a good place to start. I usually install Arch using the beginner's guide. You'll find that although people here are happy to help, that it's wise to do as much research ahead of time before asking questions in the forums. Arch is not Ubuntu. I would suggest doing some reading before installing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

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darkjh

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Registered: 2011-10-21

Posts: 33

Re: Questions before installation

My partitions for Ubuntu is /,/home,/tmp in ext4 et /swap
Can you tell me more about the os-probe? I should use it after the installation?

Thanks your responses.

Have you looked at the wiki? Might be a good place to start. I usually install Arch using the beginner's guide. You'll find that although people here are happy to help, that it's wise to do as much research ahead of time before asking questions in the forums. Arch is not Ubuntu. I would suggest doing some reading before installing.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Main_Page
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide

Yes I've read them but still dont know if I install grub correctly during installation, whether it can boot normally without losing WIN7. I cant try this case on a virtual machine.

junkie

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Registered: 2011-10-12

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Re: Questions before installation

Yes you will be able to boot Windows 7 after installing Arch. I myself have installed Arch on top of Windows, and all I had to do is uncomment the Windows-chainloader part in the menu.lst after install, which is there by default. Be sure to correct the partition number, if the Windows boot partition is not hd(0,0) in your case!

darkjh

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Re: Questions before installation

Yes you will be able to boot Windows 7 after installing Arch. I myself have installed Arch on top of Windows, and all I had to do is uncomment the Windows-chainloader part in the menu.lst after install, which is there by default. Be sure to correct the partition number, if the Windows boot partition is not hd(0,0) in your case!

Thanks..