SSD migration boot option problem

[lazer100]

On 26-Feb-13 04:40:58 Avi Greenbury wrote:
>lazer100 wrote:
>> >Actually I think, Ubuntu tries to become more like MacOS than Windows. 
>> >Perhaps you should have a look at the other Ubuntu flavours: Kubuntu, 
>> >Lubuntu, Xubuntu.
>> 
>> what is the idea of these versus the standard Ubuntu?

>They ship with KDE, LXDE and XFCE as their window managers, rather
>than the Unity that standard Ubuntu ships with.

as its a major ordeal to install each, can you give some hints
as to what I would gain from each of these?


>> >However grub knows how to boot Linux from any logical partition, not 
>> >only from a primary partition. In the past I had a machine with only 
>> >logical partitions for several Linux versions and it worked with the old 
>> >grub version.
>> 
>> but what is the earliest Ubuntu you could instal to a logical partition?

>6.06, the first Ubuntu.

>> >Well, first you can install Linux into logical partitions (see above). 
>> >Second, a swap partition is not vital, if you have a lot of RAM. The 
>> >installer may complain but if you tell it not to create a swap 
>> >partition, the it will happily continue without one.
>> 
>> I didnt know you could opt out of the swap partition,
>> currently I have 4G of ram, 

>It would rather you didn't, but there's no need for one. I generally
>don't create a swap partition and use a swap file instead, but only
>because I like having a neat partition table :)

>> the other thing I thought was if I install a current version of Ubuntu
>> to say a logical partition, would that create boot options for
>> the earlier Ubuntu and logical partition XP?

>It should; grub is very good at finding other Linuxen, and I've only
>seen it bemused by Windows occasionally.

I'll probably try that then, I'll leave this till tomorrow
to see what other comments arrive,