Poll: do you think it is a good idea to instal both vista and ubuntu?

draggy · 14/06/2007 12:16 PM

very true ^.^

dedat · 14/06/2007 12:18 PM

lol, sorry draggy, i missed the links, im just reading up now..:D
thanks mate. is there anything el;se i should know before i do anything?

draggy · 14/06/2007 01:18 PM

Ummm....just one comes to mind now....when you do the partitions, make sure that the all of partitions are primary partitions. Logical partitions suck, and if the main primary goes down, the logicals under it are #@$%ed. (there might be some kind of recovery, but I would rather just not worry about it).

Where as if all of them are primary partitions, they are all fully independent of each other. So if one primary goes down the others aren't effected at all.

Chroma · 14/06/2007 01:22 PM

Ooh, I think I got an idea. If you kept windows in the unallocated space, made a partition with barely enough space for Linux, installed it, configured it to read/write to NTFS, then any images you edit, text docs you create, etc. automatically save to the windows space, meaning that you can read and write to the files on both OS's, right? I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this whole dual-boot thing.

dedat · 14/06/2007 01:39 PM

thanks for the heads up draggy,
i think that would work but you would have to give a bit more then the bare minimum space that's needed, i think i remember reading it somewhere.
on a side not, check your pm metal_gear08

draggy · 14/06/2007 01:41 PM

Yeah, you can store everything on the windows partition if you mount it and save stuff to it. I'm sure you can change the default saves in linux as well.

....how can you keep windows on the unallocated space? Isn't the reason it's unallocated because it's completely blank and has no file system? :neutral:

dedat · 14/06/2007 02:01 PM

im sure there is an option to do that, but i think hes saying to create a partition for ubuntu, and then install windows on the rest of the hardrive..
im not sure, at this point ill take your word draggy, you seem to know quite abit about the whole dual bott thingy..:D

draggy · 14/06/2007 02:11 PM

Don't quote me on vista, I've only done dual boots with xp. I believe the order that I did it in was install xp first, then ubuntu. Because if I did it that way the lilo bootloader automatically detected my windows partition when I installed ubuntu.

But do research on vista and ubuntu dual boot and you'll be fine :)

At least if you screw up, you're not out anything at all, got to love a clean HD :great:

dedat · 14/06/2007 02:16 PM

yup, that's a fair point..even if i do completely screw up my pc, i can just get it sorted by the people..i got this insurance thingy for pc, but its not incurance lol.
and yeah its not like im loosing any data..:D

tomokatsu · 14/06/2007 04:46 PM

You can't really mess up the computer by attempting to dual boot, so don't worry about that. :mdr: I agree with Draggy, when I set up a multi-boot system, I recommend that you install linux last. Even though Vista has its own bootloader, capable of starting linux, I find that Grub and Lilo (linux bootloaders) both work better at automatically configuring the system.
One more thing I'd recommend is don't freak out if something doesn't seem to work. I know that a lot of people (myself included) were very stressed out when getting the hang of dual booting, but since you're using a new computer, don't worry, you have nothing to lose. :)

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