How to install ubuntu with dual boot on laptop

[Travis Newman]

prasad at i2r.a-star.edu.sg wrote:

>Hi,
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>Your instructions are clear but does this method prevent overwriting MBR of windows ? I had read in few places that dual boot installations should be done carefully not to disturb MBR else some unwanted "side effects" may appear. How to care of this part ? 
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>P
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as far as I know, you HAVE to overwrite the MBR. Again, as far as I 
know, there is only one mbr on the drive, not one for each partition. 
The mbr is where boot instructions go, basically, so the grub or lilo 
boot loader gets installed into the MBR and points it to the linux root 
or boot partition, depending on what your setup is, and to the Windows 
partition, allowing you to select which you want.