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Cluster_one

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Registered: 2012-06-23

Posts: 14

[Solved] Dual boot and grub2

Hi, i have a laptop with Ubuntu and GRUB2 along side a preinstalled Windows 7.

Currently my set harddisk is setup like this:

Hard drive 0
    /dev/sda
    /dev/sda1    Windows Bootloader
    /dev/sda2    Windows 7 Files
    /dev/sda3    Linux - /Boot
    /dev/sda4    Linux - Swap
    /dev/sda5    Linux - /
    /dev/sda6    Linux - /home

I Want to install Arch on this laptop, but I want to uninstall Ubuntu. So here are a couple questions.

Can '/home' and '/Boot' be left alone, wipe the root partition, and only setup Arch to root?
If they can be left alone how do i configure /Boot to Arch during installation.

Last edited by Cluster_one (2012-06-23 19:31:17)

MoonSwan

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From: Great White North

Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 881

Re: [Solved] Dual boot and grub2

Let the installer format /boot & / and tell it not to format and install a new filesystem on /home.  Follow the Beginner's guide and you'll be fine from here on.

DSpider

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From: Romania

Registered: 2009-08-23

Posts: 2,273

Re: [Solved] Dual boot and grub2

You may also want to start with fresh dot files. Sharing /home partitions between distributions is not a very good idea. Well, the partition maybe. But only if there's a different user dir for each distribution. So either rename the folder from your old account (/home/someuser) or create a different user than the one you used on Ubuntu (which will create a new folder on the /home partition).

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Cluster_one

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Registered: 2012-06-23

Posts: 14

Re: [Solved] Dual boot and grub2

Thanks, Solved.