well im getting a new computer towards the end of this month and i wanted to try ubuntu out.
so i was thinking of having both windows vista and ubuntu on my hard drive.
i found
THIS tutorial which shows how to install both OS's but i was wondering what you guys would reccomend me to do.
thanks..
Just partition the drive correctly, before installing anything. Then install Vista, followed by Ubuntu on a separate partition. Done :P
but do you think its a good idea or would i be better of with just one OS?
Double postby the way thannks zinga
It is a nice idea, especially if you have the space to spare. Just toss ubuntu on there and presto, you have an OS that you can boot in case of emergencies. (like if vista becomes unbootable.
I find it difficult to go back and forth and use both OSes evenly. So you may not even use ubuntu that much (though it is a great OS and far outperforms vista with beryl, etc.) But it's nice to have.
yes.. of course is good... XP and Ubuntu for me... XP for playing games.... Ubuntu for others...
by the way, would i just partition the hardrive evenly? so half for vista and half for ubuntu?
whatever you want. if you want to mainly use vista for everything and just want to see what ubuntu is about, i would split it like 80/20%
also, if you want to be able to move stuff between the two OSes, i think you need to set up a third partition and format it in a way that both OSes can access it (fat 32 or something?). otherwise, stuff you put on vista would not be accessible by ubuntu, etc. you have to transfer the stuff between them.
but to tell you the truth, i have never installed another OS, i have never partitioned any of my drives or anything, i just read about it or something and remembered this stuff. so if I'm incorrect, somebody correct me.
edit: if my understanding is correct, partitioning a drive sets it up as smaller fully independent drives right? say i run XP and have a 250 gig and i partition it 100/100/50, I'll have a C(100), D(100), and E(50) drive show up in my computer...?
You don't necessarily have to do that eggroll, but that is one way.
I setup a full dual boot system on a laptop once with ubuntu and xp. I could access both drives from either OS. For the linux system, you install ntfs-3g which allows you to write to a ntfs partition when mounted....instructions for ubuntu can be found
here
As for the windows side, I installed Ext2 IFS which is little utility/driver that allowed me to read/write to the ext3 partition that ubuntu was on. Get it
here (yes it does seem to work with ext3, check the faq). It mounted the linux partition just like any other partition in windows and it just showed up as a drive in my computer. The only thing is I did it in xp, I don't know if it'll work with vista...)
One thing to note is that if the ext3 partition is dirty and/or has a disk check scheduled, you won't be able to access it until you boot linux and let it do it's check. (Ubuntu has an auto-check after so many mounts)
And yes, you are correct about partitioning. It shows up as if you have 3 separate hard drives when you only really have one.
all i no is amzter has a gd computer with 250gb hardrive n 2gb RAM, but wen he installed ubuntu, his vista screwed up and kept asking him to activate, but it wouldn't let him activate it :S pretty gay i guess...
DAMN RIGHT IT WAS GAY IT PISED ME OFF PROPA HARD AND IT HAS HAPPEND 2WICE AFTER GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR MS VISTA ROT IN HELL