Why is Windows so stupid?
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Why is Windows so stupid?
20-03-2009 8:58 PM
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Re: Why is Windows so stupid?
20-03-2009 9:13 PM
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install GRUB
learn how to use grub
or google "lin'n'win"
problemo solvedo
Re: Why is Windows so stupid?
20-03-2009 9:17 PM
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Re: Why is Windows so stupid?
20-03-2009 9:21 PM
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As for buying another hard disk, don't think that is a good idea. I am quite proud of the fact that after 4 years my laptop is in mint condition. Don't want to take a screwdriver to it on a regular basis. I have already done it once to upgrade from 256Mb RAM to 1Gb a while back.
Re: Why is Windows so stupid?
20-03-2009 10:37 PM
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Also remember that MS is anti-linux (for obvious reasons) so they are unlikely to write the Windows setup program to co-exist with Linux are they?
The Linux partition should appear as a FAT partition unless you are using another file system but Windows will of course install NTLDR as the bootload so yes you need to configure GRUB (and I need to learn how to configure it too as I've always zapped all partitions, let Windows do its thing and then let the Linux setup resize the NTFS partition and install GRUB.)
Time for a bigger hard disk?
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20-03-2009 10:43 PM
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Have been considering a larger disk for the laptop but with alrteady 1.2Tb of disk space on my network I cannot really justify it.
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20-03-2009 10:48 PM
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20-03-2009 10:53 PM
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20-03-2009 11:39 PM
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21-03-2009 8:47 AM
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Quote from: Sean Why can Windows setup not just run and say "Unknown Partition" like it does sometime depending on what Linux distro is on there.
Possibly because the Linux installs are setting up the partition type as one that Windows considers it's own.
Quote from: Sean Have been considering a larger disk for the laptop but with alrteady 1.2Tb of disk space on my network I cannot really justify it.
Does your laptop support booting from USB (or eSATA if your laptop has it) drives? If so you could install Linux on an external drive.
Mike
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