Windows 7 and Kubuntu

**poetofzwan** · February 3rd, 2009

Does anyone know how difficult it is to install Kubuntu on a system that has Windows 7 already installed?

I heard that the bootloader has been changed.

**jimv** · February 3rd, 2009

It doesn't matter what Windows 7's bootloader is. Installing Kubuntu will replace it with the GRUB bootloader.

**poetofzwan** · February 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by jimv

It doesn't matter what Windows 7's bootloader is. Installing Kubuntu will replace it with the GRUB bootloader.

Yeah I know grub is installed, but will Grub recognise my Windows 7 installation?

**pirate_tux** · February 3rd, 2009

Originally Posted by poetofzwan

Yeah I know grub is installed, but will Grub recognise my Windows 7 installation?

Yes, it will recognise Microsoft crapware. Gnu/Linux is not Windows...

**jimv** · February 4th, 2009

My mistake, I thought you wanted to install over Windows 7. But yes, GRUB should see the Windows install and put an entry in the boot menu for it.

**loveandequality** · February 9th, 2010

Try Wubi.

**efflandt** · February 9th, 2010

Shrink Win7 partition with its own administration tools to free up some space. Then install Ubuntu in the freed up space.

I always prefer creating my own partitions rather than letting automatic partitioning possibly do something unexpected (in the past, 64-bit WinXP beta changed my partition table geometry, and after I fixed that so it could boot, SuSE wanted to change it too, but I caught that before it did).