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<snip>What other options are there, besides GRUB taking over the MBR? & how non-graphical is the alternative CD anyway? Does it require knowing a whole bunch of linux terminal commands?
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If you're not already booting another distro with XP then you don't have to use this way; but you can use your existing bootloader & install the Kubuntu GRUB to the partition where Kubuntu itself is installed. All you have to do then is edit your existing GRUB menu.lst by copying the main Kubuntu menu.lst entry into it.
For example, my menu.lst at the moment looks like this:
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timeout 10
color black/cyan yellow/cyan
gfxmenu (hd0,6)/usr/share/gfxboot/themes/pclinuxos/boot/message
default 0
title PCLinuxOS 2007
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22.10.tex1 BOOT_IMAGE=PCLinuxOS_2007 root=/dev/hda7 acpi=on resume=/dev/hda8 splash=verbose vga=794
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd-2.6.22.10.tex1.img
title Ubuntu 7.10, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=613f5c6c-d3c9-40a9-8d47-5e81c3399782 ro quiet splash
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic
title linux-nonfb
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=linux-nonfb root=/dev/hda7 acpi=on resume=/dev/hda8
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img
title failsafe
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=failsafe root=/dev/hda7 failsafe acpi=on resume=/dev/hda8
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/initrd.img
title Windows XP
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
The ubuntu entry was just copied from its own menu.lst, which is why it's in a slightly different format.
If you're just installing Ubuntu alongside XP there's no advantage as it's not that easy to edit the XP bootloader.
The alternative CD is still graphical, but more like the the old DOS chunky graphics, no command line stuff, just arrow & tab keys to navigate, no point & click...