Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
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Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 10:53 AM
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Which is the best sequence for dual booting Vista Linux - install Vista first or second
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 12:30 PM
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Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 5:52 PM
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I know I am not using a Security Suite but is there anything else which could explain it.
I can't see why Vista should affect site loading times
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 6:03 PM
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Even Windows 7, which is much better than Vista, is still comparatively slower.
Of course, with a LiveCD, everything is running off of a ramdisk so it will be faster for certain things anyway.
B.
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 6:07 PM
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Install Linux
Install M$
Boot from a Linux CD and follow some online guide about how to re-install grub.
M$ first is the easiest way as Linux will add an item in the grub menu for you, and you can choose to have your M$ partition loaded as /windows or WHY.
As to speed of loading, well which browser are you using? FF3 on both? If so it is probably down to all the "pre-filtering" by your spam/av/cookie/etc filters esp if you have Mcaffe or Norton AV installed.
Good luck with the experiment
Ken (Currently on Ubuntu 64bit machine)
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
15-04-2009 6:09 PM
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Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
16-04-2009 2:47 PM
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Doubtless you know that I am no expert on this Linux thing but in my experiments I found that the Wubi install was much easier than the dual boot thingy (if that makes sense). On boot up I just had to select Ubuntu and that was it. Also, very easy to remove from within Windows and no objections from Vista.
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
17-04-2009 11:34 AM
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Laptop came with Vista Installed and two partitions. C (boot) and D (Recovery).
I defragged the C drive and then went into the disk manager and went to the shrink partition option. Its a big disk (320GB) with about 300 available on the C drive. I worked out that I wanted to split the disk roughly 50/50 so I requested it to shrink the C drive and create a new partition. Request it BUT DONT create it, and make a note of the two disk sizes it comes up with for the new C size and the new partition.
Exit all of that without saving any changes.
Boot off the Linux install CD.
When it comes to the disk partition tell it that you want it to resize the existing partition and give it a value of slightly LESS than Windows gave you for the new partion size. It should then successfully resize the partition and install.
And that is basically it.
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
17-04-2009 3:04 PM
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As I have said before I only use the odd M$ program and that under Wine or via VirtualBox (a Sun product now) and most of that is printing in HiDef as Linux doesn't support HiDef on my printer a Canon IP4000, although the newer drivers are getting better, or for converting ebooks to fb2 format so I can read them on my EEE (the ABC Text Converter series is good but needs to be run in a VM it won't work in Wine.)
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
17-04-2009 3:12 PM
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Vista 100GB (45GB free)
Swap File 10GB
Data and Games 292GB (66GB free) of which games currently take up 74GB
Second Operating System 65GB
Re: Dual boot Vista Linux 64 bit
17-04-2009 4:27 PM
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Or is the 10Gb for Vista?
The best performance will be if you give it the free partition, but wubi will let you try it out without repartitioning.
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17-04-2009 4:51 PM
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I wasn't sure about giving it a free partition but I was going to put it somewhere away from the Vista partition to avoid excessive fragmentation.
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17-04-2009 7:21 PM
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You will have to force vista to reboot the pc or shutdown when you want to boot xp but I guess you all ready know that
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17-04-2009 7:39 PM
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Regarding dual boot that isn't a problem although it's a bit trickier if you install Vista first http://windowssecrets.com/comp/080214/#story1 but you do need to stop XP deleting the Vista restore points
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