Hiya

Getting ready to do a dual install of Windows XP and Ubuntu on a new blank drive. As near as I can figure....I install XP first using as much space as I want to give it (half the drive). Then afterward, I install Ubuntu on the remaining half. Seems simple enough. But which handles the boot startup sequence? Most of what I read says I do something with GRUB and it handles the boot choice when I turn on the power each day. But I also read that I should let windows handle this procedure since windows updates will overwrite things occasionally and I could lose GRUB settings or something to that effect.

Anyway....lets say I have reached the point where I have XP installed on half the drive. Now I am installing Ubuntu on the remaining unformatted space on the drive. I've installed Ubuntu once before all by itself...and it went smooth. But I assume because this is a dual boot drive, I will need to do something different? And what about this GRUB versus Windows thing about which controls the boot sequence?

Not looking to do anything fancy. Using defaults whenever possible for both systems.