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]
Ubuntu On Fujitsu Lifebook S6510
Blog If the Ubuntu installation procedure detects Windows partitions on the disk, it offers to preserve that partition, and install Ubuntu in the remaining space. I wouldn't try the three-way partition setup on the S2110 because that system doesn't run...
[June 5, 2008, 9:16]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog Comment I wouldn't go near Vista but I do have a RHEL server in the basement that never needs touching from one month to the next - a quick VNC or ssh occasionally is all it takes -- and I've got Ubuntu in a VM on my desktop, and in a second partition on...
[October 24, 2007, 18:55]
Vista Versus The Gutsy Gibbon - Ubuntu 7.10
Blog There, the computer has two partitions, and for historical reasons the ubuntu system lives on a small 3GB sliver of a much larger disk (I mounted the major partition as my home directory). Of those seven, three run XP, one runs Ubuntu 6.06, two are...
[October 22, 2007, 1:43]
Dual-Boot Ubuntu And Windows XP Professional
Blog It came up and offered to preserve XP in its current partition, and use the rest of the disk for Ubuntu. As I continued setting up the Ubuntu partition, and copying over what I needed from XP, I realized that a lot of the space that was used in the...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment On my own experience this works as long as you have a means of installing Vista last to the first partition without interfering with the previous installations other than to overwrite the MBR etc. Hence Vista must be on the first partition and...
[June 18, 2008, 9:26]
Vista - Still Running And Stable After Six Weeks
Blog So although my experience with Vista for the past six weeks has been good, the struggle and the problems with it for the year before that caused me to go in a direction where I use Windows less and less, and my hope for the future is that I will...
[September 21, 2008, 8:18]
XP SP3 Problems
Talkback I have installed Ubuntu on my XP SP3 computer using Wubi (installs in the Windows partion without needing to partition the disk) and it runs very nicely. How quick and easy it is to install Linux compared to XP or Vista, and how quick it is to boot...
[May 13, 2008, 9:09]
Quad Boot - Friday Update - It's Good!
Blog Java, Flash, Thunderbird, OpenOffice, C-Kermit and the Gnome Partition Editor were all found in the Synaptic Package Manager, and Citrix, Opera, Gizmo5 and Skype all installed from downloads on their respective web pages without any trouble.
[July 4, 2008, 15:23]
