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« on: July 08, 2011, 12:35:52 PM » |
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So I'm probably getting a new laptop soon. Our last one (an acer) died just a month it of warranty but I managed to salvage the harddrive. Now, I want a *nix OS on our next computer - probably Ubuntu - but my girl apparently is anti-*nix. Since anything I buy now will come with Windows 7 installed already, I figure I can just dual boot. The only problem is I've never set up a dual boot, the couple of guides I've read make it seem easy enough to do a few partition and have windows and ubuntu share data (documents, music, etc). But just how easy is it? And am I better off with choosing a different Linux build?
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PhaedrusXY
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« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2011, 12:39:04 PM » |
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I have a Win7/Ubuntu dual boot system (maybe 2... I forget which Windows version one of my laptops has...), and it works fine. Ubuntu in general does a good job of managing windows partitions.
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
Sounds like the makings of a gay porn film.
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BeholderSlayer
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« Reply #2 on: July 09, 2011, 05:38:55 PM » |
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It's extraordinarily easy. Buy it with W7, back up all the data on that partition, create a new partition, download the *nix CD image file and burn it, put it in your drive and reboot. After that, installing is extremely intuitive.
There are instructions out there for getting your Ubuntu to peek into the windows filing system so you can access your windows files from it.
Currently I'm running Natty. Yes, I'm aware it's not perfectly stable, but I've never had any problems with it whatsoever.
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PhaedrusXY
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2011, 02:52:09 PM » |
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There are instructions out there for getting your Ubuntu to peek into the windows filing system so you can access your windows files from it.
Are you talking about accessing dll files for use with WINE, or what? Because AFAIK, ubuntu can read and write to windows partitions with no problems right "out of the box". |
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A couple of water benders, a dike, a flaming arrow, and a few barrels of blasting jelly?
Sounds like the makings of a gay porn film.
...thanks
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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2011, 03:24:01 PM » |
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right, ubuntu read ntfs w/ no trouble
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The goal of power is power. - idk We are not descended from fearful men. - Murrow The Final Countdown is now stuck in your head. Anim-manga sux.  |
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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2011, 10:35:42 PM » |
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There are instructions out there for getting your Ubuntu to peek into the windows filing system so you can access your windows files from it.
Are you talking about accessing dll files for use with WINE, or what? Because AFAIK, ubuntu can read and write to windows partitions with no problems right "out of the box". right, ubuntu read ntfs w/ no trouble
IIRC I had to type a command to get my Ubuntu partition to peek into my NTFS partition, but maybe I just made that up. It's been a while. That's what I'm talking about, not using WINE. |
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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2011, 11:12:40 PM » |
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at one point in time it was tricky, but its a snap now.
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kurashu
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« Reply #7 on: July 13, 2011, 11:34:34 AM » |
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Well, I made the jump to Natty on our desktop after fighting a losing battle witha virus and XP SP3 and Defender not installing. I like it but I'm probably going to downgrade to 10.10 as Natty or Gnome doesn't like our Dimension 3100. However, after seeing it in action and the ease of install, I can see that dual booting won't be hard. My girlfriend even likes it so we may scrap 7 all together depending on how endearing it is.
Thanks everyone!
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Tleilaxu_Ghola
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« Reply #8 on: July 14, 2011, 06:48:52 PM » |
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Well, I made the jump to Natty on our desktop after fighting a losing battle witha virus and XP SP3 and Defender not installing. I like it but I'm probably going to downgrade to 10.10 as Natty or Gnome doesn't like our Dimension 3100. However, after seeing it in action and the ease of install, I can see that dual booting won't be hard. My girlfriend even likes it so we may scrap 7 all together depending on how endearing it is.
Thanks everyone!
OpenSuse is another decent, fairly user friendly distro and it's compatible with the new snazzy Gnome3 desktop, of which I'm a fan. Dual booting with win7, in any system, is a snap b/c of the new partitioning utility win7 has. Unless you're pining for disk space I can't imagine why you'd get rid of win7. As much as I love linux, I guarantee something will make you crawl back to windows like a beaten cur. |
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BeholderSlayer
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« Reply #9 on: July 17, 2011, 11:24:42 AM » |
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Well, I made the jump to Natty on our desktop after fighting a losing battle witha virus and XP SP3 and Defender not installing. I like it but I'm probably going to downgrade to 10.10 as Natty or Gnome doesn't like our Dimension 3100. However, after seeing it in action and the ease of install, I can see that dual booting won't be hard. My girlfriend even likes it so we may scrap 7 all together depending on how endearing it is.
Thanks everyone!
OpenSuse is another decent, fairly user friendly distro and it's compatible with the new snazzy Gnome3 desktop, of which I'm a fan. Dual booting with win7, in any system, is a snap b/c of the new partitioning utility win7 has. Unless you're pining for disk space I can't imagine why you'd get rid of win7. As much as I love linux, I guarantee something will make you crawl back to windows like a beaten cur. Typically it's needing to use something for which you can't find a Linux substitute, and that you can't run in WINE. That's why I dual-boot, personally. |
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