New Directions - Ubuntu
Blog Since I always do this sort of thing by swapping disks, and I have a disk for that laptop which I had previously loaded with Vista Home Premium (and given up on, even before I got the S6510), I could reclaim that disk for Ubuntu and my XP Pro disk...
[May 21, 2008, 16:20]
Vista SP1 Installed, Working OK So Far
Blog I have also installed Ubuntu 8.04.1 (Hardy Heron), and Mandriva Spring 2008, so I have a three-way boot selection now. The installation of Vista SP1 completed normally on my Lifebook S6510, and it seems to be running normally for the time being.
[August 6, 2008, 11:12]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog One of the more amusing permutations was when I first installed Vista, then copied XP into the next partition, and finally installed Ubuntu into the third partition. Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the...
[June 17, 2008, 15:16]
OpenSUSE 11.0 First Impressions
Blog As I told my brother (who is still using XP, and has sworn not to touch Vista until Hell freezes over), in many cases the average user who is accustomed to Windows XP would have no more trouble changing to Linux (openSUSE or Ubuntu) than they...
[June 20, 2008, 12:45]
New Debian GNU/Linux Update
Blog I would then have one disk for my S6510 laptop that triple-boots XP Professional, Ubuntu and Mandriva, and another that dual-boots Vista and Debian. The first piece of good news is that it seems to understand the Mobile Intel 965 display adapter...
[August 20, 2008, 13:04]
