you can use the grub bootloader, which, if i remember correctly, ubunutu will install it without your knowledge. it is also supposed to be able to autoconfigure everything for you.

if you wish to use the windows bootloader, then i believe there is an option during install that you can tell it to not install grub, but then you need to modify the windows boot.ini file as well as create a small file in windows that will point to the linux partition (a total pain).

Message Edited by Balthor on 05-15-2007 08:23 PM

You most certainly can install ubuntu on the Win 98 partition. If you just select that partition during setup ubuntu will do it all for you. When you select Win XP during grub boot, it may then go to the original XP/98 boot menu you are used to. Not a problem--as long as you don't select Win 98. You will get an error and have to restart. Happened to a friend of mine when he installed 6.10. Apparently the boot menu that XP sets up is too stupid to realize Win 98 has been blown away. There are fixes for this, but you need to do them before you install Linux. If you go poking around in the Windows boot tables after installing Linux, Winblows will be happy to take access to freedom away.

Look at my user name, then my post count, then your post count.

@Balthor, This site is run by Dell. Its called a Community Forum, its for members to work out their problems together. L-A-W is blocked because people have posted threads about filing a L-A-W- **S-U-I-T against Dell. Dell wants this to be a tech-related problem only site.

I never claimed that I was! You assumed I was, then found out I was not. Dell's are the same as any other computer. Just a different case.

Cray is among the few manufactures of SUPER COMPUTERS.