Dual Boot 14.04 and 8.1

[William Frick]

Thank you all.  Resized partitions and installed 14.04 okay. Grub doesn't
show immediately as a boot repair process needs to be done. HP's OS manager
gets in the way. Power on with escape key brings up a screen and lets me
boot to ubuntu. So far everything seems to work as it should.....


On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 2:22 AM, Bob Jonkman <bjonkman at sobac.com> wrote:

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> Cranky wrote:
> > he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM.
>
> A Windows OEM license (the one that came with the computer) almost
> certainly is not valid for a Virtual Machine.  That's a legal
> restriction, not a technical one.  In fact, there may be language even
> in the Commercial-Off-The-Shelf license that restricts you from
> installing it on a VM.
>
> And if you have restore media chances are that you won't be able to
> apply that on a VM either. That's a technical restriction, imposed by
> MS to enforce their legal restriction. F'rinstance, I tried to install
> Win7 OEM for my HP ProBook on a VirtualBox VM, and although I could
> run the setup (over 2 hours of setup!), Win7 wouldn't actually boot in
> the VM.
>
> I did have some luck using the SysInternals command Disk2VHD.exe
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/ee656415.aspx
>
> James Kelsh demonstrated this at a KWLUG meeting some months ago, and
> I was skeptical when I saw it. I thought that since the install from
> DVD wouldn't work on my laptop, I'd be doomed to dual-boot forever.
> But Disk2VHD worked like a charm!  Don't know if it works on EFI based
> partitions, or if it works with Win8, or secure boot.
>
> - --Bob.
>
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> On 14-05-08 04:47 PM, CrankyOldBugger wrote:
> > Normally I'd agree, Doug, but if we want Linux to be the primary
> > (base) OS instead of Windows, and the laptop ships with Windows
> > installed, and if William wipes the HDD then installs Linux, then
> > builds a Virtual box Windows 8.1 guest, there is a possibility
> > that he won't be able to use his Windows license in the VM.  I've
> > heard of cases of this happening.  Sorry for the run-on sentence!
> >
> > If William a few spare 8.1 licenses lying around (say from before
> > they closed TechNet) then he should be ok to build a 8.1 VM.
> >
> > But if he wants to leave Windows as the host OS, then install
> > Linux into a VM, that should work fine.  But who wants that?  lol
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 8 May 2014 16:40, Doug Penner <darwinsurvivor at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> VirtualBox with USB passthrough could also be a viable solution.
> >> On 14-05-08 13:05 CrankyOldBugger wrote: Would Wine work instead
> >> of dual-boot?
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8 May 2014 15:56, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Haven't riun windows on my machines since 6.04 but a 3dscanner i
> >> funded is coming with windoze software first, then OSX and linux
> >> when they get to it.....
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, May 8, 2014 at 12:07 PM, CrankyOldBugger <
> >> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Have the UEFI turned on before you start the install.  Ubuntu
> >> notices if it's on or off, then installs accordingly.  Windows
> >> will want it on anyway, so probably best to set both OS to use
> >> UEFI/Secure Boot.
> >>
> >>
> >> At least, that's been my experience with 13.04.  By 13.10 I was
> >> running Ubuntu by itself, no more Windows.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On 8 May 2014 14:47, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Just got my HP Sleekbook and want to dual boot to 14.04...... Is
> >> there any thing I should be watching out for in the install ?
> >>
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