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Ubuntu Disk Problem
Talkback The only major problem I have had is how it deals with disk partitioning if you wish to clean the disk and return to a windows 98 SE setup. Somehow Ubuntu boot features remained on the disk despite partitioning with windows fdisk and reformatting.
About: Desktop Linux for small business
[December 31, 2007, 17:28 by hoobs]
Quad-Boot Fun, and A Correction
Blog When I went through the disk partitioning in openSuSE, it came up with its own idea about how and where to install, and then gave me three options - accept, edit partition map, create partition map. The specific procedure and partitioning that I...
[July 2, 2008, 13:41 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
Managed VoIP Services: Go for the best
Blog In managed partitioning service, the equipment, software, and other support are delivered to the users. Consequently, in managed network partitioning, the quality of voice is quite impressive. In such services, the parameters that reflect the...
[April 28, 2008, 12:03 in VoIP Service and Solutions by kristenkiya]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu and Windows XP Professional
Blog The next attempt I used the manual partitioning option in Ubuntu setup, and set the Windows partition to about 10 GB more than the actual used space. If you have another computer already running Linux, or another disk with Linux that you can swap...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
What a goof
Talkback The partitioning and scaling of application functionality lays within the software design itself. This guy should stop making up nonsensical works, like "appcentric", and think in terms of real business.
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[August 26, 2009, 17:56 by yonman]
RE: Windows 7 upgrades can take almost a day
Blog Comment Any PC user / admin with at least half a clue about what they are doing should be perfectly capable of doing either a backup of their old environment or re-partitioning their drive to dual boot for the interim period.
[September 15, 2009, 15:21 by 50943]
Linux and Disk Partitions
Blog The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, specifically as it relates to PC BIOS systems, and to make a suggestion about partition names and references. As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working...
[January 20, 2009, 16:09 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
RE: Why I've moved from Vista to Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment It should only be used for partitioning. @bodoveot IE7 being sandboxed is similar to the Linux idea of "chroot jails". If you're unsure what that means, then I don't know what to tell you. Just understand it's a good thing.chroot is not a security...
[October 24, 2007, 18:21 by russofris]
RE: Vistification - a temporoary drive to Linux?
Blog Comment Next stop for me, by the way, is partitioning then Gusty Gibbon. Yes - and the scary thing is that those consumers without techie support (and an available licensed copy of XP) may not feel comfortable with doing what I did, which was try Vista...
[October 25, 2007, 14:14 by David Meyer]
RE: Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog Comment I was helping a friend load Linux on a Samsung netbook over the weekend, and the disk partitioning was exactly as you had - Recovery, Windows (C:) and Data (D:). XWJ - Could you please check again to be sure that all six of your partitions are...
[July 21, 2009, 8:43 by J.A. Watson]
Despair greets software patent bill
Talkback Maybe the function itself such as 'Partitioning of a hard drive in an automated fashion'? To the Management Consultant (Vaughn): Or anyone else who thinks they can answer) Please give me an example of a company or person who has "invented" a truly...
About: Despair greets software patent bill
[March 11, 2005, 13:15]
Virtualization - An Overview
Blog In simple terms it can be understood as the partitioning of hard disk that we all do into different drives/sectors. Virtualization may seem like a technology comi0ng into vogue for last few years only but in reality has been used in some form or...
[August 5, 2008, 9:38 in Scientifically Metaphysical by rohit.mishra@evangelists.in]
SimplyMEPIS 8.0 Released
Blog It asks a minimum of questions, it is very easy to use with my rather complicated multi-boot disk partitioning, and it seems to be fast and reliable. MEPIS announced their SimplyMEPIS 8.0 release over the weekend.
[February 24, 2009, 9:26 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Some Days You Eat the Bear...
Blog But when I got to the disk partitioning, it produced an "unexpected exception", and the installer crashed. and some days the bear eats you. Sigh. Today was going to be a good day. The Fedora 11 Beta was released yesterday evening, and I had already...
[April 2, 2009, 8:11 in Jamie's Random Musings by J.A. Watson]
Linux on the HP 2133 Mini-Note, Part 1
Blog Finally, because I have no intention of having a lot of different Linux distributions on this netbook over the long term, I have kept the disk partitioning very simple. It is important to note that the following information is based on my trying...
[January 27, 2009, 13:06 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
This is a stupid discussion.
Talkback Indeed, there are disk partitioning and defragmentation tools built in. As a product matures, it gains features. We can read text files with notepad, but no-one is complaining because they can't see a way to make money with a notepad replacement.
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[January 20, 2009, 17:43 by 99829]
openSolaris 2008.11
Blog But that feeling didn't last long.it didn't seem to be able to understand the disk partitioning. The disk partitioning on the 2133 looks like this: I have been wanting to look into something other than the mostly Debian-derived Linux distributions...
[March 20, 2009, 12:13 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
Evaluating the latest MicroSoft Cash Cow
Blog Note to Microsoft: Make the advanced partitioning dialog selection button a little more obvious please. I downloaded the Windows 7 Ultimate RC DVD ISO onto my wife's computer. Then I realized that her computer doesn't have a DVD burner.
[May 8, 2009, 2:33 in Reviews Blog by Xwindowsjunkie]
Mandriva One 2010 RC2
Blog I had to resize the window, making it larger, in order to get at the "custom disk partitioning" option. I set about installing the new Mandriva One 2010.0 RC2 distribution today, on all of the various netbooks and notebooks around here.
[October 14, 2009, 14:12 in Reviews Blog by J.A. Watson]
These are a few of my favourite things...
Blog Magnificent.gparted: Sorts out partitioning and formatting of disks. And all free, of course. Gnome Do: Miraculous quick app starter, a la QuickSilver. Alternatively, you can call it an Intelligent Launcher Tool.
[December 29, 2008, 10:48 in Web design & FOSS by Jake Rayson]
