blur xc
August 3rd, 2009, 08:07 PM
Well, I followed these instructions http://apcmag.com/how_to_dualboot_vista_with_linux_linux_is_already_ installed.htm and after a couple of hours on my wonderful Saturday (too damn hot to do anything else anyway) I was happily dual booting away!
I chose the Grub boot loader option, and that was relatively painless. The only sticky spot was getting vista to select the partition I made for it- that part of the instructions was a teensy bit vague, but I fiddled around and got it going. Oh- and once it was running - my stupid usb keyboard gave me troubles. It turns out I didn't have the "enable usb keyboard" option set in my bios...
The only extra thing I did was create an extra ext3 partition for my home folder which I still need to move over. That sounds simple enough from the psychocats tutorial.
I was hoping a clean ubuntu install w/ vista in virtualbox would have fit my needs, but that has been troublesome. That's a subject for another thread though...
BM
I chose the Grub boot loader option, and that was relatively painless. The only sticky spot was getting vista to select the partition I made for it- that part of the instructions was a teensy bit vague, but I fiddled around and got it going. Oh- and once it was running - my stupid usb keyboard gave me troubles. It turns out I didn't have the "enable usb keyboard" option set in my bios...
The only extra thing I did was create an extra ext3 partition for my home folder which I still need to move over. That sounds simple enough from the psychocats tutorial.
I was hoping a clean ubuntu install w/ vista in virtualbox would have fit my needs, but that has been troublesome. That's a subject for another thread though...
BM