On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 8:08 AM, marbux wrote:
> It's been a few years, but I don't recall having any problems with
> clean-installing a dual boot set-up so long as WinXP is installed
> first. But it's possible I was running WinXP on FAT32 then rather than
> NTFS. I don't remember.
>
That's how I
It's been a few years, but I don't recall having any problems with
clean-installing a dual boot set-up so long as WinXP is installed
first. But it's possible I was running WinXP on FAT32 then rather than
NTFS. I don't remember.
At the same time, I think it's far more useful than dual-booting to
ru
all,
Mr O.
--- On Thu, 4/7/11, abr...@peak.org wrote:
> From: abr...@peak.org
> Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows Linux laptop PLEASE SEE
> WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT
> To: "Eugene Unix and Gnu/Linux User Group"
> Date: Thursday, April 7, 2011, 6:25 PM
> --
Ouch. I spent more than 2 hours on one of my futile install attempts.
You've just said you can do in your spare time what it took me weeks to
puzzle out.
On 4/7/11 6:51 PM, Mr O wrote:
> We're not scaring away but posting what one thinks is a definitive install
> guide on a mailing list and
On Thu, April 7, 2011 6:59 pm, Julie Baumler wrote:
> I'm a hardcore Unix bigot, my first Linux install was sometime in the
> late '90's when Slackware was the shit
There is an extra word in the above quote.
Finding it is left as an exercise for the reader...
-ajb
_
I'm a hardcore Unix bigot, my first Linux install was sometime in the
late '90's when Slackware was the shit and I had to change the device
driver assembly code and recompile the kernel to get my NIC working
(on thin-net!) So, I'm in now way a newbie. However, if you want to
easily CONVERT a Win
> That be all,
> > Mr O.
>
> Is defrag really so brain damaged that it has to be run
> more
> than once for full effect? Sheesh!
> --
> Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
> If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
> find a Unix user
- "Russell Johnson" wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:12 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote:
>
> > But wasn't this true (and anticipated by Linux installers) way back
> > before WinXP?
>
> Yes. Which is why this worked with 95/98/NT/2000 too. I started using
> this method to install dual boot back during
o brain damaged that it has to be run more
than once for full effect? Sheesh!
--
Allen Brown http://brown.armoredpenguin.com/~abrown/
If you have any trouble sounding condescending,
find a Unix user to show you how it's done. --- Scott Adams
> --- On Thu, 4/7/11, abr...@peak.or
re resizing run chkdsk on your NTFS partitions to
get everything in good order. Also, defrag a few times if you've been running a
Windows system for a while before resizing.
That be all,
Mr O.
--- On Thu, 4/7/11, abr...@peak.org wrote:
> From: abr...@peak.org
> Subject: Re: [Eu
On Apr 7, 2011, at 2:12 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote:
> But wasn't this true (and anticipated by Linux installers) way back
> before WinXP?
Yes. Which is why this worked with 95/98/NT/2000 too. I started using this
method to install dual boot back during my time at Symantec, which was 1993
throug
I haven't had a problem resizing a windows partition in several years. The
partition tools for Linux have gotten MUCH more intelligent in the recent
past. You might not be able to shrink the Windows partition as much as you
want to, but as long as you let the tool tell you the maximum it is OK.
- "Russell Johnson" wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:34 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote:
>
> > Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so
> > easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition?
>
> In my experience, the boot loader and the first couple of files loaded
> f
On Apr 7, 2011, at 1:34 PM, abr...@peak.org wrote:
> Does anybody know what MS has done to make their system so
> easy to corrupt if we let Linux resize it's installed partition?
In my experience, the boot loader and the first couple of files loaded for
Windows are very very fragile. Moving the
u/Linux User Group"
Sent: Thursday, April 7, 2011 12:02:04 PM
Subject: Re: [Eug-lug] HOWTO Dual boot Windows Linux laptop PLEASE SEE
WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT
PLEASE SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT DIRECTLY AFTER THIS ONE!
Quote:
If people blindly follow your instructions and h
On Apr 7, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Harald Sundt wrote:
> Quote:
Whom are you replying to? It's not readily apparent from the text you have
included in your message. I'm assuming me, since you posted the original.
As I recall, neither of the procedures outlined retained the 'original' windows
insta
PLEASE SEE WARNINGS IN THE COMMENT DIRECTLY AFTER THIS ONE!
Quote:
If people blindly follow your instructions and have (more likely these
days) a Vista or Windows 7 PC, they will most likely corrupt their
existing installation -- by allowing the Ubuntu installer to shrink
their Windows insta
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