Thanks again Tim, all my machines are fairly up to date so I'll give it a try.
Charles
Quoting Tim Allen :
Hi Charles
Tim, your idea greatly appeals to me as it seems to solve all problems
and reduce complexity too. But please:-
Has Virtualbox been around long enough to be proven reliable?
On 20/06/13 18:05, andrew_bone...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
FWIW, my setup is as follows:
I have a dual-boot machine, running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. The Grub loader
lets me switch between the two.
About 10 years back, installing dual-boot Windows/Linux could be very
problematic. I nuked one OS
FWIW, my setup is as follows:
I have a dual-boot machine, running Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.10. The Grub loader
lets me switch between the two.
About 10 years back, installing dual-boot Windows/Linux could be very
problematic. I nuked one OS or the other during installation more times than I
car
On 20/06/2013 16:08, Simon P Smith wrote:
Personally my laptop books into Ubuntu and then starts up a Windows 7
virtual running in an lvm partition under the xen hypervisor. This
means it gets access to the tin (graphics card, usb bus etc.) and runs
significantly faster than virtualbox.
Ema
On 20/06/2013 15:01, Tim Allen wrote:
You need enough RAM to run both OS'es together, and enough CPU power.
Given that most recent machines come with both that shouldn't be an
issue. I'm using it on a 12 yr old machine Terry kindly gave me (4GB,
couple of vintage Xeons).
Hardware (eg USB pe
Hi Charles
On 20/06/13 14:22, c...@pampru.org wrote:
Thanks Tim, and to all others who have sent comments they have all
helped, but I do need Windows AND Linux.
I need Windows because it is used by business. As I am a 73 year old
pensioner augmenting my meagre pension by doing occasional work,
On 20/06/2013 14:22, c...@pampru.org wrote:
Thanks Tim, and to all others who have sent comments they have all
helped, but I do need Windows AND Linux.
I need Windows because it is used by business. As I am a 73 year old
pensioner augmenting my meagre pension by doing occasional work, I
can't
On 19/06/2013 14:15, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Charles,
Turns out I was on 11.04 so I have upgraded to 11.10 and am now in
process of upgrading again to 12.04LTS - will probably stop there as
that seems to be the latest stable LTS.
Yes, it is.
I will also be re-formatting network and USB driv
Thanks Tim, and to all others who have sent comments they have all
helped, but I do need Windows AND Linux.
I need Windows because it is used by business. As I am a 73 year old
pensioner augmenting my meagre pension by doing occasional work, I
can't afford to upgrade Pro versions of Windows
Hi Charles
On 19/06/13 16:15, c...@pampru.org wrote:
I have four PCs, most will be dual-boot so that I am able to run XP-Pro
and Office 2003-Pro (a decade with no problems and do all I want) and
Win-7 with Office 2007 Pro (very difficult to use) with Office 2003 Pro
to fall back on en 2007 hits
On 20/06/13 08:18, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 20/06/13 07:27, Keith Edmunds wrote:
My suggestion to you is to pick either Windows or Linux, and stick with
that. If you want to, you can do everything in Linux.
Hi Keith,
Fist up I'll confess that I have only dropped in on this thread at
this point
On 20/06/13 07:27, Keith Edmunds wrote:
My suggestion to you is to pick either Windows or Linux, and stick with
that. If you want to, you can do everything in Linux.
Hi Keith,
Fist up I'll confess that I have only dropped in on this thread at this
point. However, that said I'm not sure I agre
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