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[Verde Denim]

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:17 PM, Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>wrote:
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>> 2009/5/31 Verde Denim <tdldev at gmail.com>:
>> > All
>> > Just built a new machine...
>> > AMD quad-core X64 Phenom 2 on a GIGABYTE mobo with an NVIDIA XFX GTS 1GB
>> > DDR3 graphics card
>> > flying 16GB of Corsair 1600 DDR RAM.
>> > (originally a game box for my son but he bought an alien so it's mine)
>> >
>> > It seems most of the components will run with Ubuntu, but the dilemma is
>> > this -
>> > I want to run Ubuntu as a primary with Win as a virtualbox within it.
>> I've
>> > had some scary slow performance problems in the past
>> > running mickysoft in virtual under Ubuntu.
>> >
>> > Have others here on the list got an opinion strongly in 1 direction or
>> the
>> > other (win w/ubuntu as virtual vs ubuntu w/win as virtual?)
>> > my school uses win, as well as a few things at work, but I try and do
>> > everything I can under linux as of a few years ago, and, aside
>> > from the occasional gameplay, I don't miss the dumbed down OS
>> environment at
>> > all.
>> >
>> > Any input is welcome. I'm trying to decide how to kick this monster off
>> > prior to adding the 3Tb of disk storage in...
>> >
>> > Regards,
>> > Jack
>> >
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> I have not tried virtualisation at all, but spontaneously I would say
> that I would run Windows under Ubuntu. The reason is that I would use
> Ubuntu for most of the time, and it should be faster to run Ubuntu
> directly than under Windows. So the OS you use most often should be
> running and the other one could run virtually.
>
> Well, that's my opinion anyway.
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
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> All
>  Thanks for the input. I'm currently installing Ubuntu 64-bit Server.  I
> caught NoOps comment about the repo, which I'll add as well.
> Looks like it should be a good box - I've been living with 2 old 256Mb
> boxes for about 12 years running Ubuntu since V4, and Gentoo V1.
> I finally get my own screamer...
>
> Jack
>
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First rub... Install complete, reboot server -
Grub loading, please wait...
Error 22

I got some research to do...

Jack

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