Dual Boot On 2 Partition IBM Thinkpad T42

[Eamonn Corbally]

Hi,
I'm an IT Consultant and desperately want to embrace Linux/Ubuntu but  
my experience thus far is miserable to say the least.
I've downloaded, burnt and verified the Feisty Fawn 7.10 i386 DVD.
As a live CD/DVD it is wonderful and very seductive. The install  
experience is a nightmare.
For someone who has spent over a decade using fdisk, Partition Magic,  
Mac OS partitioning and other utilities I fail to understand why the  
partitioning procedure is so non-intuitive and frankly difficult. I  
have reserved a 10GB+ partition (call it D: although it no longer is,  
it is free space and still have no joy).
The installer falls over twice. Once during the File/Account transfer  
which I didn't choose as an option and then at 94% when it tries and  
fails to install grub reporting a fatal error. I end up with no  
Ubuntu install and my Windows MBR is destroyed. I have nothing. It is  
long known that the XP repair console utility simply doesn't work so  
I have to reinstall Windows which in XP at least retains my documents  
and settings.
Part of the problem I think is that the partitioning tool is  
reporting my HD as SCSI (sda) which it patently isn't, it is bog  
standard IDE.
Originally (I've done this 4 times now) I thought it was failing  
because it was trying to install grub on an hda space when it's own  
partitioner was calling it sda. I changed this to sda in the Advanced  
option but it still doesn't work.

I'm stuck but would still like very much an Ubuntu install. I'm very  
stubborn!

Can you offer any advice?

Best regards,

Eamonn



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