Re: windows7 dual boot
I heard that Mint was going to stay with the classic gnome interface as default - since they agree with the thinking that it should stay as-is to make it easy for new people. This might have changed recently, but I haven't heard anything about it. (which could just be me not reading the right article). Gnome-Shell is the name of the interface within Gnome 3 - so as I understand it, switching to gnome 3 means using gnome-shell. ~Stephen On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 3:32 PM, Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au wrote: On 11/04/2011 10:30, Peter Watts wrote: I have read somewhere that MINT will not be using Unity, This an other distros built on Ubuntu my be a better option. Thanks Peter Mint is simply a re-work of Ubuntu. However, I also did read somewhere that it will have a fork which will maintain and continue to use the gnome DE. But then comes the question: will they continue to maintain gnome 2.3 or switch to the gnome shell (whatever the heck that is!) or to gnome 3? BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details. Confucius -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au -- Stephen Rees-Carter ~ Valorin http://stephen.rees-carter.net/ -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: windows7 dual boot
On 11/04/2011 10:30, Peter Watts wrote: I have read somewhere that MINT will not be using Unity, This an other distros built on Ubuntu my be a better option. Thanks Peter Mint is simply a re-work of Ubuntu. However, I also did read somewhere that it will have a fork which will maintain and continue to use the gnome DE. But then comes the question: will they continue to maintain gnome 2.3 or switch to the gnome shell (whatever the heck that is!) or to gnome 3? BC -- Great Man reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty Man reaches complete understanding of the minute details. Confucius -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: windows7 dual boot
- Original Message From: Adrian J de Bruyn adr...@debruyn.net.au To: Ubuntu AU List ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 9:08:45 AM Subject: windows7 dual boot G'day all Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a choice. What am I doing wrong? -- Probably nothing you are doing. From my reading of Ubuntu Forums, there appears to be a bug in the installer in 10.10 (Very regrettable - a bad intro to a great OS) I don't dual boot with Windows so I'm unable to test it. From what you are describing it seems that grub does not get installed correctly. One way around this would be to specify the partitions manually, as this advanced mode does not have any problems. If you're going to do this I would highly recommend setting up a separate /home partition because that allows you to re-install, upgrade, repair etc the / (root) partition that the OS sits on at will, without risking your important data and settings. So, you would have a Windows partition (NTFS), a Linux boot partition (ext4, 15-20 GB recommended), a /home partition (ext4, as big as you can spare) and a swap partition (at least the size of your installed RAM recommended). Specifiy sda (first hard drive) as the device to install grub onto and it should work perfectly giving you the option to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu. If you don't feel comfortable with the more advanced manual setup, you might want to try the 10.04 release which should work fine. 10.04 is the LTS (long term support) release and is perfectly fine, in fact it's the most stable current release and the one I recommend for newcomers to Linux. It's also possible that you just need to install grub to the hard drive from the LiveCD. Go over to ubuntuforums.org and ask for help from the knowledgeable folks over there. (Because I've never had to do it this way) BTW, if you want to be able to access your ext 4 partitions, particularly /home from windows, just install the open source ext2 driver under Windows. Chris -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: windows7 dual boot
Hello For those in Melbourne, nearby and in Victoria (and if you are anywhere else it still applies), Linux Users of Victoria (LUV) runs a Beginners Workshop on the 3rd Saturday of every month at the HUB in Docklands. Its a free event, and everyone is welcome (not just members). Although it is not a specifically Ubuntu event, Ubuntu tends to take a fair amount of people's time at the event. See www.luv.asn.au for more info, including exact location details. The next meeting is this Saturday 16, April 11.00 to 16.00. (although if you get there at 11 and sees noone, just hang around a little bit, because it is not unusual for the organisers to be a bit late!!) The kind of issues experienced by Adrian de Bruyn are among the ones which can be dealt with. Cheers Daniel On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:00:07 -0700 (PDT) Chris Robinson fabricat...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Adrian J de Bruyn adr...@debruyn.net.au To: Ubuntu AU List ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 9:08:45 AM Subject: windows7 dual boot G'day all Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a choice. What am I doing wrong? -- Probably nothing you are doing. From my reading of Ubuntu Forums, there appears to be a bug in the installer in 10.10 (Very regrettable - a bad intro to a great OS) I don't dual boot with Windows so I'm unable to test it. From what you are describing it seems that grub does not get installed correctly. One way around this would be to specify the partitions manually, as this advanced mode does not have any problems. If you're going to do this I would highly recommend setting up a separate /home partition because that allows you to re-install, upgrade, repair etc the / (root) partition that the OS sits on at will, without risking your important data and settings. So, you would have a Windows partition (NTFS), a Linux boot partition (ext4, 15-20 GB recommended), a /home partition (ext4, as big as you can spare) and a swap partition (at least the size of your installed RAM recommended). Specifiy sda (first hard drive) as the device to install grub onto and it should work perfectly giving you the option to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu. If you don't feel comfortable with the more advanced manual setup, you might want to try the 10.04 release which should work fine. 10.04 is the LTS (long term support) release and is perfectly fine, in fact it's the most stable current release and the one I recommend for newcomers to Linux. It's also possible that you just need to install grub to the hard drive from the LiveCD. Go over to ubuntuforums.org and ask for help from the knowledgeable folks over there. (Because I've never had to do it this way) BTW, if you want to be able to access your ext 4 partitions, particularly /home from windows, just install the open source ext2 driver under Windows. Chris -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. For All your Open Source and IT requirements see: www.greenwareit.com.au -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: windows7 dual boot
On 09/04/2011 09:08, Adrian J de Bruyn wrote: G'day all Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a choice. What am I doing wrong? Adrian Try here for a start: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows#Dual-Boot BC -- I believe what I am programmed to believe. A robot in Futuruma -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
Re: windows7 dual boot
On 09/04/2011 09:54, Basil Chupin wrote: On 09/04/2011 09:08, Adrian J de Bruyn wrote: G'day all Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a choice. What am I doing wrong? Adrian Try here for a start: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwitchingToUbuntu/FromWindows#Dual-Boot BC I should have added that I don't use windows but have read that for W7 you should use W7 to compact any of its partitions to make room for Linux, if such space is required (use defrag first and then the W7 partitioning tool). BC -- I believe what I am programmed to believe. A robot in Futuruma -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au
