Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Ubuntu (Grub) correctly saw that there were two bootable Windows partitions on the disk, and both Vista and Ubuntu booted correctly, but when I tried to boot the XP partition, it actually started to boot Vista but then complained that the boot...
[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 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]
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]
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. It came up and offered to preserve XP in its current partition, and use the rest of the disk for...
[June 13, 2008, 10:30]
Triple Boot Ubuntu/Vista/XP - No Go So Far
Blog Comment I loaded Vista first, then Ubuntu; GRUB recognized the Vista partition and set it up to boot, using the Vista boot loader, and added an entry to the boot menu saying Moley, I've just set up a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntu disk from scratch, and confirmed...
[June 18, 2008, 14:14]
Ubuntu 7.04 review
Reviews When installing a new operating system, especially on an existing Windows machine, we recommend first running a disk partition program such as Norton PartitionMagic. Unlike Windows Vista UAC, Ubuntu asks for an administrator password only once...
[July 13, 2007, 11:39]
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]
New Ubuntu Out Tomorrow
Blog With my Desktop system on it's knees due to a corrupt partition table (my fault for trying to repartition a drive while it was running vista at the time) I am planning to format and give Ubuntu a try.
[April 28, 2008, 12:03]
