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Hi everyone,

After successfully installing the latest (and last) 32-bit build on my 2006 MacBook Pro alongside Snow Leopard, I'd now like to install LL (latest 64-bit stable) on my Lenovo laptop, and I really, REALLY want to do it via Grub2Win because I don't want to have to rebuild my MBR if things go South with LL.

So far, I haven't done anything other than install Grub2Win (went without a hiccup).

I still have to partition the SSD on the laptop (got about 350GB of free space left on the Windows partition, so I've got room to wriggle); I haven't tried to boot from the USB stick where my LL copy is.

In your experience, is there anything I should really be cautious about, in terms of partitioning, before and during install? Any precautions I should take on the Windows side before I take the plunge?

Contrarily to the Mac, this laptop is my primary machine. I work on it every day, got Trados and Domino installed on it for my translation work, and every new install is a pain in the rear, license-wise, especially with Trados, and, as I said in preamble, I'd like to keep the hairy stuff to a minimum.

Would it not make more sense to ask the people at Grub2Win since this is the only way you want to do it?

Yes, you're absolutely right, and I'm gonna that just now.

I was hoping that someone here had already installed LL via grub2win, and could give me a few pointers on how not to botch the job, because LL is my distro of choice for this, and I know that install can vary from one distro to another; some are very picky on a number of things (swap or no swap, UEFI and BIOS partition or not, etc.).

When I installed 3.8 on the Mac, for example, the installer crashed on me twice before actually going through with the install, and on every crash, I had set the partitions exactly the same way.

But you're right, it's best to get the answer straight from the horse's mouth. Thanks for taking the time, and have a great afternoon/evening!

The vast majority of people here are going to use what is supplied already, Grub.

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