How much RAM is enough? How much should you allocate to windows? How much does Linux need? Mint17.1 is running currently using 2.3G with a terminal open and Chrome with 2 tabs open.
:-)~MIKE~(-: On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Mark Phillips <m...@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote: > George, > > if your computer has enough horsepower and ram, I would suggest not > setting up a dual boot system, but instead run Windows in a vm - vmplayer > or virtualbox. I have used dual booting with Linux and Windows for a long > time, but once I started running windows in a vm, I was much happier. Fewer > headaches and easier to switch between the two operating systems. Also > easier to share data between the two operating systems. > > Just my two cents. > > Mark > On Jan 12, 2015 8:18 AM, "Matt Graham" <mhgra...@crow202.org> wrote: > >> On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepi...@kitepilot.com wrote: >> >>> Clone your Window$ with: >>> mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1 >>> (cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -) >>> >> >> I thought that NTFS had a number of things like non-Unixy file >> permissions and alternate file streams that tar is not aware of and can't >> replicate. I also thought that Windows still has a few things that require >> absolute sector positions, like the swapfile. If it's possible to back up >> a Windows-on-NTFS drive with mount and tar, that's great--but I thought it >> was unlikely. >> >> I have usually used partimage to back up and restore Windows partitions. >> That works. The downside is that it only does a partition at a time.... >> >> -- >> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >> There is no Darkness in Eternity >> But only Light too dim for us to see. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >
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