> Craig wrote: > > I have just installed Windows 7 Home Premium I know very little 'bout Win7
> 3. What are XPS documents? > > I want to be able to print to postscript so I can > transfer the postscript (with all the fonts) to my Linux > system to make new PDFs to replace ones which were made on > a Windows system without all fonts embedded (which are hard > to read on Linux). Is that at all related? When I must use MSWin, I use PDFCreator to "print" PDF files. I believe it is based on Ghostscript - and although I haven't tested it extensively, it seems to embed the fonts. GPL licensed. http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/ > 4. Installing Windows 7, of course, over-wrote my GRUB boot > sector information. GRUB or GRUB2? They are quite different. > I have a procedure to fix the boot > system of our main computer, which is single-boot and > has /boot as /dev/sda1: > > 1. Boot SystemRescue CD. > 2. Execute "startx" > 3. At a terminal prompt, type, "grub <enter>". Kinda redundant to "startx" from a terminal just to open an xterm, isn't it? *smiles* > 4. Type, "root (hd0,0)". > 5. Type, "setup (hd0)". > 6. Type, "quit". > 7. Reboot. That looks like GRUB legacy. > Since the laptop has > > First partition - Windows 7 > Second partition - another NTFS partition > Third partition - /boot, > > should I change line 4 above to: Type, "root (hd0,2)" ? Maybe. I tried to migrate a physical Win7 to a virtual machine and this dual partition thwarted me and I failed. On mine, the first partition was very small and was the Win7 boot. The second partition was the "real" Win location. >From my experience, Win7 is ornery about booting so I'm reluctant to advise "Just try it". But the "root" command looks correct for legacy GRUB. However, I gave up on dual boot a long time ago. MS Win is now always in a virtual machine (VirtualBox most recently). So long as there is enough RAM, it works just fine > 6. Anything else I should know? I sure like having my MSWin as a guest OS. It means I don't have to have as much software installed in MSWin because both the guest and the host are running. And I set up the networking so the guest can't reach the internet. And it's easy to make a backup of the guest - or migrate to another host. Oh, and I can copy/paste between the guest and the host. The only disadvantage I've found is the need for RAM. I have an laptop that shipped with WinXP, that I put the maximum of 1G RAM and it was quite usable running a OpenBox on the host and WinXP on the guest. Not peppy, but usable. -- Philip _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
