Dual Installs Linux/Vista

[Kent Paul Dolan]

> Windows MUST have the first partition on the first
> hard drive, period.

Nope. Even "as delivered", the backup OS copy
disk image partition preceded the WinXP partition on
my HP laptop. I wiped the backup partition after
copying its contents to DVDs, split it to make a
swap partition out of part of it, then installed
Ubuntu 7.10 in the rest, and it is running fine, so
it absolutely is possible to have Ubuntu in a lower
numbered partition than MS-Windows.

I can't speak to Vista, though. There isn't a ten
foot pole made long enough to tempt me to touch
Vista with it.

It's not so much the bugfest, the performance sloth,
or the horrid reputation Vista quickly earned that
made Microsoft hurriedly bring WinXP back as a
"first choice" for OSen bought already installed in
computers [as the sales of "Linux Inside" started to
ramp up rapidly with Vista the only choice], as it is
the nannyware that has Microsoft acting as an
uninvited monitor of my use of third parties'
intellectual property on my hardware.

What I do with my computer is none of Microsoft's
business, full stop. I won't "upgrade" to IE 7 for
the same reason; it also is polluted with nannyware.

> Do not know why.

You get to choose "Microsoft software development
incompetence" or "Microsoft corporate strategic
hostility to dual boot OSen", the evidence is
overwhelming on both sides, but best you choose
both to be fully correct.

The more dual boot systems there are, the more
people are finding less and less reason to use the
Microsoft side, and finally eliminating it, as many
posting here describe.

Fun fact: Microsoft has a program they try to push
down user's throats that "checks that you have a
valid (legal) copy of MS-Windows". I sure hope HP
isn't selling laptops with pirated copies of WinXP
installed. Being gullible, I downloaded and tried to
run the program under WinXP Media Center 2005
Edition. It fails to run at all, much less check my
OS's validity.  How's that for software development
incompetence!

xanthian.

From: Richard <cms0009 at gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 13:47:46 -0500

Oh, Man...
I knew it... this stinks.

Thanks-
Richard

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 11:32:21 am Karl Larsen wrote:
> Richard wrote:
> > Have linux install on drive one,
> > but I would like to install my Windows Vista restore disk,
> > on drive two.
> >
> > Everytime, I got to install windows, it grabs the first drive,
> > and wipes out Linux., is there a way around this,
> > or do I have to purchase, a full retail copy of Vista,
> > to install on what hard drive I want?
> >
> > Thanks-
> > Richard
>
>     Windows MUST have the first partition on the first hard drive,
> period. Do not know why. You need to let windows load where it wants.
> And then load Ubuntu whereever you want to but not on top of windows :-)
>
> Karl



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