Gusty-Feisty-windows
Derek Broughton
news at pointerstop.ca
Thu Oct 11 18:16:29 UTC 2007
Twist O'Connor wrote:
> just wondering though, why would ytou want more then 1 linux/ubuntu.... i
> could understand if you wanted 1 thats ubuntu and one thats like linux
> straight but 2 ubuntus is kinda wierd......
Not at all. If you have to support an LTS server, and users running the
latest Ubuntu, it probably pays to have both on your system.
> anyways you can... if you
> have windows... setting up a partition is super easy!
> right click computer in start menu... click on manage
> disk usage... click on it
> right click on your main partition.... prob windows'
> click shrink volume and pick the size you want the extra OS to be
LOL. If it was that easy I'd have had my new HP dual-booting two days ago.
120GB disk - 8GB for HP's recovery partition, 101GB (that's all that's
actually available on a 120G drive) for Windows Vista. It's using 20 of
that. Shrink partition: it'll let me have 30! OK, uninstall all the
really big junk (almost 1GB for HP pay-to-play Games!) and turn off Virtual
Memory. Shrink partition: Wow, now I can get 40G for real work.
Mess around with that for an hour or so, no way I can get more than 40GB.
OK, then, boot into Feisty install disk, shrink partition - with intention
of reinstalling Windows on a 20G partition (still more than I really need).
Reboot, reinstall, system hangs - apparently because it insists it can
actually use the old Windows NTFS partition.
Reboot to feisty disk, delete Windows partition. Reboot, reinstall, system
hangs - apparently because it insists it can actually use the old Windows
NTFS partition.
Reboot to feisty disk, make 20G Windows FAT32 partition. Reboot, reinstall,
system spends forever verifying that it's a valid (but empty) FAT32
partition - then reformats it as NTFS and reinstalls.
Somehow it sounds so much easier now than it did last night... And I'll
almost certainly end up never using that partition...
> then when you install click "guided partition... use all availible space"
> there you go... piece of cake
Well, that was a whole _other_ pile of frustration. I can't say I'm
terribly impressed with Vista or Feisty right now...
I think my biggest Feisty problem is probably that they're pushing the
limits on the CD. I couldn't get a valid image on the CDs, and since it's
always the same files that show as corrupt, I think my CDs probably just
can't handle 694+ MB. I finally got smart and burned it to a DVD and it
worked flawlessly.
--
derek
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