Dual Boot 14.04 and 8.1

Fri May 9 19:37:53 UTC 2014

Not sure what VHD is and what Electronic Fuel Injection has to do with it
.... When time permits I'll work on the boot sequence, but work, 3D
printing, roof replacement and restoring my 26 year old Chevy stepside tack
priority right now.  Haven't checked every hardware feature but the
touchscreen, touchpad, AV etc... are all working from the start.  FreeCad
works too but haven't tried the daily PPA yet.

On Fri, May 9, 2014 at 10:32 AM, CrankyOldBugger
<crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>wrote:

> Good work, William.
>
>
> On 9 May 2014 08:51, William Frick <frickwg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 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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