Hi all, I used Linux as a secondary OS to Win7 a few years ago, and ended up getting rid of it. Long story short, I am coming back, and am trying to decide which distro to use.
I will be using...
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Hi all, I used Linux as a secondary OS to Win7 a few years ago, and ended up getting rid of it. Long story short, I am coming back, and am trying to decide which distro to use.
I will be using...
Cheesemill has answered both your questions splendidly, but I'll elaborate on them a bit as well.
You'll find a link in post 7 (next to the sdb1 partition entry) explaining the 1MB Grub...
Lol, in the time it took me to write my reply to oldfred, I got three new ones. :P
Hmm, so I could get away with my sdb drive only having 2 partitions, a swap and root? I guess that makes sense....
I definitely have UEFI. Sounds like I need to read up quite a bit on how to ensure I am using GPT.
Excellent advice, I shall do just that!
Yeah, I'm thinking of changing the Linux HDD to be...
Ironically, after taking on your guys great advice, I couldn't help but tinker with my partitions and in the process wiped my Windows D drive. :(
I'll now be reinstalling both OSes from scratch...
Best config and general questions for three drives, multibooting
Hi all,
So I had a nice dual boot working with Win7 and Xubuntu. Then, in response to some good partitioning advice on a different thread (link), I decided to mess about with some of my...
Hi, I've installed assorted flavours of Linux distros as a second OS alongside Win 7 for about 3 years now, but I've not really ever used any of them in anger.
I am now determined to stick with...
Thanks for the advice and the link, oldfred. That makes good sense to me. I think I will just install Xubuntu to a single root partition and then place my /home drive on a second.
I'm marking...
Re: Best partition method for future updates?
Ah, that answers my question nicely.
Also, yes I will be sharing personal documents with Windows. Do I need so much space in /usr or could I reduce it safely to something smaller?
Oh wow, really? So when Xubuntu 13.04 is released, how would I upgrade to it? I thought I'd have to download the ISO and do a normal install...
Hi all, I'm a relative Linux newbie, and am currently dual-booting Win7 with Xubuntu 12.10.
However, I am aware that in 6 months time, a new version will come around which I will probably want to...