Re: LUG: Dual booting tips? - Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:09:12 -0400

Subject : Re: LUG: Dual booting tips?

From : Michael Wright <terminallyalive@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sun, 04 Oct 2009 03:09:12 -0400

Rickett,

I've tried dual-booting before and I find it doesn't work all that
well for me either, but I would, however, recommend the set up I have
no at home on my desktop. I run Windows 7 (blasphemy, I know) as the
full-time OS, but spend most of my time in a full-screen Ubuntu 9.04
VM. This gives it the appearance and functionality if an Ubuntu
system, but any time I need to drop back into Windows, rather than a
reboot, its just a key-press away to take it out of fullscreen. The
only real downsides are it requires a bit more RAM due to running
Windows as well as Ubuntu, and that I can't do any really graphics
intensive work in Ubuntu. Other than that, its a pretty nice setup, in
my opinion.

If you're really set on dual-booting however, I have done that for
periods of time and the only advice I could offer is the sharing of a
partition for data/music/whatever, but you've already done that.

Sorry I couldn't provide more help in terms of actually dual booting,

Michael Wright

On Oct 4, 2009, at 2:52 AM, Richard Carter wrote:

> Hey all,
>
> I want to discuss how to dual boot. Not from a technical perspective
> of how to install partitions; I'm already quite familiar with that.
> But tips on making the most of dual booting, and keeping the annoyance
> of it to a minimum.
>
> I'm tied to Windows because of several programs - iTunes (because
> nothing in linux currently supports iPod Touch firmware 3.0+), Game
> Maker (for a class; no, Wine doesn't cut it), Visual Studio 2008 + XNA
> Game Studio, and I could probably come up with a few more if it wasn't
> 2:30am. Yet, I've been running Ubuntu almost full-time for the last
> few months.
>
> I'm at the point where my iPod hasn't been synced in weeks, I'm not
> keeping up progress with my game project, and I'm also not keeping up
> progress with Video Game Development Club related stuff (we use XNA).
> All because I like using Ubuntu, and I feel like it's a pain to switch
> into Windows for one thing and then switch back to Ubuntu.
>
> I'm not tied to Ubuntu. Firefox 3.5 runs just fine in Windows. Eclipse
> is cross-platform, as is Maple. Pidgin is in Windows (among several
> other great IM clients too). Basically, all of the things I do in
> Ubuntu can definitely be done in Windows, as far as I can tell.
>
> So with that in mind, I have a necessity for Windows but not for
> Ubuntu. If I can't smooth out the rough parts of dual booting, I will
> end up installing only Windows onto my whole hard drive, as much as I
> don't want to, just so that I actually get those things done that need
> to be done.
>
> I have a 320gb hard drive, currently partitioned like this: 200mb Win7
> boot partition, 100gb Win7 partition, 2gb swap, 200mb boot, 25gb
> Ubuntu partition, ~175gb NTFS (shared) partition. I like the shared
> partition, it's worked out really well for basically containing my
> documents and such so that I can access them on both OSes. I've also
> tried making a Win7 VM and running that whenever I need the above
> applications, but it just doesn't seem as good as actually booting
> into Windows 7.
>
> Sorry for being so verbose! Now that you know my whole story, what
> advice do you have as far as peaceful coexistence of Linux and
> Windows?
>
> Thanks,
> Richard "Ricket" Carter

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