Two part Question About Dual Booting

[mdiemer]

I currently have Lite and Kubuntu on same hard drive. I have found that I prefer Lite. If I get rid of Kubuntu, and expand the Lite partition to the whole hard drive, how can I make sure Lite will still boot OK? Currently, Kubuntu "owns" Grub as it did the last update for it.

Second part: I am also going to replace Kubuntu with Lite on my wife's laptop. Email isn't working right on Kubuntu so she isn't using it. If I just manually install Lite to the partition that Kubuntu is on, will that work? By work I mean, will both Lite and Windows 7 boot?

[mdiemer]

Well, the first part is solved as a result of my solving my other thread, about changing grub ownership.

Still a bit unsure about the second. If it were my computer, I would just plunge right in and see what I could do. But since it's the wife's, I'm just looking for a little reassurance that I'm not going to brick her laptop. Not that I couldn't fix it, I have images etc. But it would be embarrasing!

[tek10]

If you manually install Lite to the partition Kubuntu is on, you will be fine, as long as you leave the Windows partitions alone. Make sure to select "Something else" for the installation type and know which partition is Kubuntu, ie sda1 or sda3 or whichever. The Lite Help Maunual covers this very well.

Just as assurance though, I have a laptop I use for testing distros. It always has two operating systems installed, dual boot, and I have replaced each of them numerous times with no issues. Sounds like you know how to take care of Grub boot loader.

[mdiemer]

Thanks tek10, that's just the reassurance I was looking for. Now I just need to feel lucky...