some attention pls.. guys

[Sylviane et Perry White]

On Saturday 19 January 2008 12:21, Donn wrote:
> Javed,
> Take it one thing at a time. Try to boot off the Kubuntu CD and start the
> installation again. It sounds like you have erased Vista, so don't worry
> about that. When you get the system installed, we can worry about listening
> to music.
I'm not sure, but I thought Javed wanted to reinstall Vista and was asking 
how.
If that is the case it is probably better to start with Vista, then 
reinstalling Kubuntu (or fixing Grub).

Since it is important IMHO to understand why it it so, I'll try to explain for 
Javed:
When a computer boots, the BIOS, (Basic Input Output System residing on the 
motherboard) will perform some tests and tell the machine to fetch further 
instructions on a predetermined place on the first hard drive, which is 
called the bootblock.
When Windows is installed, it behaves as if it were the only system and 
overwrites the bootblock for its sole purpose. 
Linux is nicer (well... normally, I don't know what happened in your case and 
wether something really went wrong or you just missed the countdown when Grub 
was waiting for you to tell to boot into Vista). Linux modifies the boot 
block to retain the original functionnality of the boot block and just adds 
the option to boot to the new system.
GRUB, the Grand Unified Bootloader (or another "good" bootloader), will be 
called from the bootblock and ask you what system you want to boot.
That is why windows has to be installed first (unless you are smart enough to 
boot from a CD and fix Grub).

I have never installed Vista (and I have even never seen it) but installing 
from a CD is normally an easy task, *you said you were trying to reinstall it 
but didn't know how to*
_You tried to reinstall it or you just want to reinstall it?
Please, Javed, ask more precise questions because nobody can guess where you 
are stuck.
Also I hope you are not trying the newest Ubuntu version, it is still 
experimental and not recommended to newbes.


Stick on, first steps are always the hardest			Perry
 

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