Good Ubuntu hardware?

[Karl Larsen]

José do Nascimento Dias wrote:
> Thanks for your kind answer, Karl. 
> As I am a newbie (though 71 years old) and my English is not so good,
    I am 73 and my English is poor but it is all I know.
>  perhaps I could not make myself understood. My REAL problem has to do with INSTALLING kubuntu-8.10 in a system with dual boot provided by Lilo and two other operating systems.
    I prefer Grub over Lilo for the big hard drives we have now
>  As long as I know, the OS kurumin7 cannot start if there is no root directory established for it. 
>   
    No Linux can start unless it has a root directory.

> As the kubuntu installer does not accept a [ / ] directory for kurumin at the same time that I put a[  / ]directory for kubuntu in the installing phase PREPARE PARTITIONS, I was wondering if I should put [ /boot ]as the mounting point for kurumin.
>   
    I know nothing first hand about kubuntu and kurumin, but I can say 
if they are both Linux then you MUST have a root for both and the 
simplest is just /.

> Thanks.
> Josef.
>
>   

Karl

>> Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:50:45 +0100
>> From: magick.crow at gmail.com
>> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: Re: Good Ubuntu hardware?
>>
>> Thanks for your answer.
>>
>>     
>>>    There is NO system that you just load and with no driver setup and
>>> work. Forget that and join the REAL world.
>>>       
>> My system worked like that save for the install of the Nvidia driver
>> and the codecs and that was really easy.
>>
>>     
>>> Your friend wants to use Gimp
>>> to do video things and it works best on Linux where it was born.
>>>       
>> Video with Gimp??
>>
>> Kino, avidemux, open movie or maybe Blender3d.
>>
>>     
>>> Karl
>>>       
>>
>>
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