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Re: New Laptop
24-08-2011 6:00 PM
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I use Nero Linux 3 and have done for many years
It a pity that Nero Linus isn't included in the bundled s/w that comes with drives as it would be nice I am looking into buying a blu-ray burner for data backup and so far the Linux programs don't seem to support them but Nero does (I may have to shell the £18 for a new copy though >:(). All the input seems to be in ripping movies not burning things
Re: New Laptop
24-08-2011 6:47 PM
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Quote It a pity that Nero Linus isn't included in the bundled s/w that comes with drives as it would be nice
Strangely, I got a copy of Nero Linux 3 Essentials bundled with a LiteOn portable DVD drive. Never tried it though as I've always used k3b.
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Re: New Laptop
05-09-2011 4:51 PM
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Had a bit of time to play, successfully got the boot order sorted so that the dvd is on top in anticipation that Mint 11 is available as a Live CD. It seems that once I have got the extra partitons to suit the linux system it may be required to muck about with MBR and grub(2?) to be able to boot in to either OS as rquired. Am I right or is it set up automatically?
Got Avast/Malwarebyte & Spybot S&D all installed fairly easily which should make fairly bullet-proof.
Re: New Laptop
05-09-2011 5:15 PM
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Quote Am I right or is it set up automatically?
When you install Mint it will detect the other OS's already there and install and configure grub automatically.
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Re: New Laptop
05-09-2011 5:31 PM
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I had hoped that would be the case. I have now found out that Mint 11 does come as a Live dvd or a Live CD, with some omissions to keep it less than 700MB. Progress maintained!
Re: New Laptop
06-09-2011 12:26 PM
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I had an issue installing dual boot Windows Vista / Linux on a friends HP laptop.
Every time Vista was booted up the HP Windows utility "HP protect tools" overwrote the disk Master Boot Record (MBR) with a clean copy of the Windows only MBR.
This removed grub (the programme that provides the option to choose the OS to boot) and Windows Vista would auto start.
I assume that "HP protect tools" implements an MBR anti virus protection mechanism.
I had to remove "HP protect tools" from the Vista installation & replace grub on the MBR to achieve a reliable dual boot installation.
Richard
Re: New Laptop
06-09-2011 12:36 PM
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Re: New Laptop
06-09-2011 1:25 PM
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Linuxmint-11-gnome-dvd-32bit.iso 887,800kb
and don`t forget to also download B43 installer package ( to get your wireless working! ! !)...
Re: New Laptop
07-09-2011 9:41 AM
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Re: New Laptop
07-09-2011 4:20 PM
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Re: New Laptop
09-09-2011 1:48 PM
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Progress not a lot further, other projects (like agriculture while weather holds!) taking up wakeing hours. Progress on the net is painfully slow today. MBS did not even start!!! all connections pityfully slow.
Thought that might have been the bug that jojo reported!! But not so.
Re: New Laptop
12-09-2011 7:41 PM
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1. Boot from the CD of the distro you want to use, e.g. Ubuntu or Mint, and make sure it works ok on your hardware.
2. Use a "system rescue cd" (sysresccd.org) to boot, and use gparted to shrink the main NTFS partition to half the size, leaving unpartitioned space. (I used the sysresccd because I had it, perhaps the Ubuntu distro CD has gparted on it).
3. Boot again from Ubuntu (or Mint), and install in the free space, side-by-side with Windows
When you boot, you will get a grub menu allowing you to select various options. I like to put Windows first, and then grub puts the Ubuntu options afterwards, and mark Ubuntu as default. The command to do this are:
Change the order of OS listed:
sudo mv /etc/grub.d/30_os-prober /etc/grub.d/05_os-prober
Change default selection:
sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
and set GRUB_DEFAULT=0 to 1
Then always
sudo update-grub
Re: New Laptop
12-09-2011 9:28 PM
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The usual issue I seem to get when doing any repartitioning is that the current program objects about where exactly the partitions start or how they are aligned, and if you ask gparted to resize a partition, it does a move+resize, and moves and resizes the partition to as close as it can get it to the requested size.
The Vista rescue CD then utterly failed to fix it automatically, either being unable to find a Windows installation or being unable to find any problem with it. I ended up fixing it in Linux with dd and a hex editor.
Re: New Laptop
17-09-2011 12:56 PM
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Glad that option 3 worked. I hope to have a go shortly. I would expect that the Mint 11 Live disks would have gparted on them. All the magazine loading steps seem to use gparted as a matter of course. Because my Win7, which has not a lot put in it apart fom AV etc., takes less than 100Gb, I am assuming that 250GB will be adequate which will leave the other 250Gb for Mint11. Seeing that Mint11 is available 32bit and 64bit variants, which is likely to be better from the hardware compatibility point of view? I gather that Win7 64bit, which is what I have, can cause compatibility problems although In fact I have not found any so far.
When I get to the specifying the Linux partitions, I anticipate giving / about 50 Gb, Swap 1 GB & 100Gb for Home, leaving elbow room for any later adjustments. My Ubuntu back-ups are all in ext3 files so I assume that there is no need to use ext4 for any of the new Linux partitions ( I am not a heavy user..no massive music or video files anywhere).
Views please???
Re: New Laptop
17-09-2011 2:51 PM
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Quote from: colintivy Seeing that Mint11 is available 32bit and 64bit variants, which is likely to be better from the hardware compatibility point of view?
64bit is generally better. Regarding hardware compatibility, there will be minimal difference, since almost all drivers are built from source.
Quote from: colintivy I anticipate giving / about 50 Gb, Swap 1 GB & 100Gb for Home
If you want to use suspend to disk, the swap partition should be at least as big as the amount of RAM, because that's where the RAM is saved to when you hibernate.
Fedora Live CDs allow you to install packages from the repository (temporarily, if you have enough RAM).
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