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Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 6

Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Hi!

I want to install Arch on my computer, where I have Windows and Ubuntu already installed.

Filesystem            Size     Used    Avail   Use%
/dev/sda6              13G     6,1G     6,3G   50%   /
/dev/sda7              26G     7,9G    17G     33%   /home
/dev/sda5             153G    100G    54G    66%   /media/Data
/dev/sda2              41G     26G     16G    63%   /media/Windows
/dev/sda1             100M    25M     76M    25%   /media/System Reserved

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1   *           1          13      102400    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2              13        5257    42119680    7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3            5257       30402   201973611+   f  W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5            5257       25176   159995146+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda6           25176       26896    13814784   83  Linux
/dev/sda7           26896       30256    26991616   83  Linux
/dev/sda8           30256       30402     1169408   82  Linux swap / Solaris

Ubuntu is on /dev/sda6, and Ubuntu /home is on /dev/sda7.

So I was hoping to resize /dev/sda5 (Data) partition, and install Arch on it.

My questions are:

Can I have more than 4 logical partitions in extended partition?

Will Arch recognize the other two operating systems?

Tux the penguin

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From: Tomorrow

Registered: 2010-05-25

Posts: 196

Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Will Arch recognize the other two operating systems?

I don't think that it is Arch that is recognizing the other operating systems, it is grub, the bootloader. I think you might have to edit the grub configuration file to boot to the other OS's.

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skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

Registered: 2010-02-14

Posts: 1,543

Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Or, if you decide to use Ubuntu's grub2, you just have to run update-grub from Ubuntu and an entry for Arch will be added to the grub menu the next time you reboot.

Last edited by skunktrader (2010-10-17 21:31:32)

McDoenerKing

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From: Germany

Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 59

Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

You have to configure Arch's Grub so it can boot Ubuntu/Windows Similier to what you had to do with Ubuntu to get Windows in grubmenu

Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 6

Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Will Arch recognize the other two operating systems?

I don't think that it is Arch that is recognizing the other operating systems, it is grub, the bootloader. I think you might have to edit the grub configuration file to boot to the other OS's.

Well I ment Arch´s Grub..

I found several people on the internet which have had some problems with Windows and Arch dualboot, so I just wanted to check.

Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

Posts: 6

Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

You have to configure Arch's Grub so it can boot Ubuntu/Windows Similier to what you had to do with Ubuntu to get Windows in grubmenu

I didn´t have to configure anything in Ubuntu. Everything went well, in 9.10, 10.04 and 10.10.

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gru … 28Grub2.29

Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gru … 28Grub2.29

Thank you.

Does anybody know can extended partition have more than 4 logical partitions? I can´t find anywhere that information.

skunktrader

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

yes

Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

yes

Thank you.

Do you know maybe can I install Arch using mobile broadband internet? Does Arch include all the packages that are necessary to setup mobile broadband connection during installation?

skunktrader

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From: Brisbane, Australia

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Have you read the Beginners guide yet?  Particularly this section http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … nvironment

Rodney8

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From: Croatia

Registered: 2010-10-17

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Re: Multiboot - Windows, Ubuntu, Arch

Have you read the Beginners guide yet?  Particularly this section http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beg … nvironment

I said mobile broadband internet via USB, not wireless or ADSL or anything else. I have read that already.