Hi folks,
So far my experience with Linux has been a misadventure, but I'm
stubborn and I'm not giving up. I have to remind myself that in the
early days of Windows I became frustrated often enough enough then, too.
My first question: For those who want to eventually throw their
Windows programs in the dumpster, is there some way to run Windows
programs in Linux? I have a number of software programs that I really
don't want to loose, and their aren't Linux versions available, yet.
My second question: Is there an easy way to format a hard drive to
dual boot without having nightmares?
I was running XP on my desktop, and I decided to install the latest
version of Ubuntu (7.1). The Ubuntu book I have is for the previous
version, and the screens have completely changed. So I guessed, and
the system wouldn't allow me to chose the first two choices I was
going to make, which was probably fortunate for me as I was uncertain
how to proceed anyway, and so I ultimately just went with the only
choice that would allow me to move forward and install, and all went
well. I got email and internet working; I was able to install plug
ins that allowed me to watch videos on YouTube (I couldn't get the DVD
player working); and dual booting worked fine. However, Windows was
running r-e-a-l-l-y slowly, and had been for a while, and so I ran an
anti-spyware program and found that I was terribly infested. So I
formatted the Windows drive and re-installed XP. Yup, you guessed it:
I could no longer dual boot. Fine, a friend said that Windows
overwrites some boot file and that I should re-install Linux. I did
this, and found that I now had two full Ubuntu installations and I
could no longer boot to Windows, even though the dual boot screen
offered Windows as an option! I must have overwritten a boot file.
So that's where I am now. I'm going to reformat again and start from
scratch, but I am no pro at formatting hard drives. I want to
partition one for Windows and one for Linux (or is it three for Linux,
one for the kernal, one for the swap section, and one for something
else?)
Oh, one more question: I want to dual boot my laptop as well, but I
want to install PCLinuxOS on that computer (I'm experimenting with
distros). I downloaded the only version I found and it won't work on
my laptop because, even though I just bought the laptop 8 months ago,
it's 32 bit (no wonder it was on sale), and the latest version of
PCLinuxOS is apparently 64 bit.
Any help ya'll can provide would be appreciated.
Thanks,
~Sean
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