Doug LaRue wrote:
a good dual boot option for Vista is to boot Vista, install the Ubuntu
8.04 CD, start the installation and tell it to use the entire disk. ;-)
It'll be dual boot only once but isn't that the best option.
I've been monitoring this thread and noticed this reply when it was
posted. Benn too busy to respond, but I had to say....
That's too funny and sounds like something I'd tell someone! :D
Honestly, I wish I could remove Vista completely. Well, I could if I
don't want to play any new games, but I've been game deprived for many,
many, many (is that too many manys? ;) ) months. Because everything uses
DX10, I'm stuck if I want to play.
Or you can try the Wubi feature of the Ubuntu 8.04 install. I figure
Kubuntu has this too but don't know for sure...just looked and
Kubuntu 8.04 has wubi.exe on the CD so that's available too.
I'll have to look into this. Maybe the harder question for me is
deciding how much HDD space to leave for Vista. There's only one drive
in the machine, and I have absolutely no money to buy another one. I
could put a SCSI controller in the one PCI slot, and connect my external
SCSI drives that have a mixture of Linux and W2K formatted drives. Which
brings me to the system in question.
Someone in the thread mentioned something about modern computers raising
the slight question as to what this system is:
MoBo: Intel® Desktop Board DG35EC
CPU: Intel® Core 2 Duo E6750
RAM: 4GB DDR2 Dual Channel 800MHz
Video: NVIDIA 8800 GS SLI 384MB
HDD: Brand? 300GB SATA II
DVD: Phillips DVD RW
P/S: 550W
Misc: 10 USB, 2 1394a, Realtek 6 channel audio built-in, Intel
Gigabit LAN
Not bad for a couple days of contract work I guess.
I could also plug an older 160GB ATA133 drive into it, but it seems a
drive that old and slow would be a waste in this system.
Decisions, decisions. :)
PGA
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