windows7 dual boot

[Peter Watts]

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

On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:04 AM, danyJ <danyj028 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> 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.aufor 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 <fabricator4 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > ----- Original Message ----
> >
> > From: Adrian J de Bruyn <adrian at debruyn.net.au>
> > To: Ubuntu AU List <ubuntu-au at 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
> >
> >
>
>
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