<div>I have read somewhere that MINT will not be using Unity, This an other distros built on Ubuntu my be a better option.</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Peter<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:04 AM, danyJ <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:danyj028@yahoo.com.au">danyj028@yahoo.com.au</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Hello<br><br>For those in Melbourne, nearby and in Victoria (and if you are anywhere else it still applies), Linux Users of<br>
Victoria (LUV) runs a Beginners Workshop on the 3rd Saturday of every month at the HUB in Docklands. Its a free<br>event, and everyone is welcome (not just members). Although it is not a specifically Ubuntu event, Ubuntu tends<br>
to take a fair amount of people's time at the event. See <a href="http://www.luv.asn.au/" target="_blank">www.luv.asn.au</a> for more info, including exact<br>location details.<br><br>The next meeting is this Saturday 16, April 11.00 to 16.00. (although if you get there at 11 and sees noone,<br>
just hang around a little bit, because it is not unusual for the organisers to be a bit late!!)<br><br>The kind of issues experienced by Adrian de Bruyn are among the ones which can be dealt with.<br><br>Cheers<br>Daniel<br>
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<div class="h5"><br><br><br>On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:00:07 -0700 (PDT)<br>Chris Robinson <<a href="mailto:fabricator4@yahoo.com">fabricator4@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> ----- Original Message ----<br>><br>> From: Adrian J de Bruyn <<a href="mailto:adrian@debruyn.net.au">adrian@debruyn.net.au</a>><br>
> To: Ubuntu AU List <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br>> Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 9:08:45 AM<br>> Subject: windows7 dual boot<br>><br>> G'day all<br>> Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to<br>
> install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I<br>> think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a<br>> choice.<br>> What am I doing wrong?<br>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
><br>><br>> Probably nothing you are doing. From my reading of Ubuntu Forums, there appears<br>> to be a bug in the installer in 10.10 (Very regrettable - a bad intro to a great<br>> OS)<br>><br>> I don't dual boot with Windows so I'm unable to test it. From what you are<br>
> describing it seems that grub does not get installed correctly. One way around<br>> this would be to specify the partitions manually, as this advanced mode does not<br>> have any problems. If you're going to do this I would highly recommend setting<br>
> up a separate /home partition because that allows you to re-install, upgrade,<br>> repair etc the / (root) partition that the OS sits on at will, without risking<br>> your important data and settings.<br>><br>
> So, you would have a Windows partition (NTFS), a Linux boot partition (ext4,<br>> 15-20 GB recommended), a /home partition (ext4, as big as you can spare) and a<br>> swap partition (at least the size of your installed RAM recommended). Specifiy<br>
> sda (first hard drive) as the device to install grub onto and it should work<br>> perfectly giving you the option to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu.<br>><br>> If you don't feel comfortable with the more advanced manual setup, you might<br>
> want to try the 10.04 release which should work fine. 10.04 is the LTS (long<br>> term support) release and is perfectly fine, in fact it's the most stable<br>> current release and the one I recommend for newcomers to Linux.<br>
><br>> It's also possible that you just need to install grub to the hard drive from the<br>> LiveCD. Go over to <a href="http://ubuntuforums.org/" target="_blank">ubuntuforums.org</a> and ask for help from the knowledgeable<br>
> folks over there. (Because I've never had to do it this way)<br>><br>><br>> BTW, if you want to be able to access your ext 4 partitions, particularly /home<br>> from windows, just install the open source ext2 driver under Windows.<br>
><br>> Chris<br>><br>><br><br><br><br>--<br></div></div>This message has been scanned for viruses and<br>dangerous content by MailScanner, and is<br>believed to be clean.<br><br>For All your Open Source and IT requirements see: <a href="http://www.greenwareit.com.au/" target="_blank">www.greenwareit.com.au</a><br>
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