Well it's all done! I now have (for me anyway) the perfect laptop. It is an HP tx1000. I have Windows XP in a 60gm partition and it boots into Grub which goes right into Ubunto 7.10 or you can arrow down to boot into XP. I have a 20gb NTFS and a 20gb FAT32. Turns out I don't need a FAT32 because Ubuntu reads NTFS including my Windows partition!
Installing XP was a pain and I still don't have the video drivers loaded because the location of the driver is not available and I don't read Chinese characters. I got some drivers from HP and a couple of people suggested other locations where I found the rest of the drivers, but I had to load all of the drivers manually. Installing Ubuntu was an absolute no brainer. Everything worked! Also it allowed me to use restricted drivers so I could use my graphics capabilities and wireless network. When I enabled them, it downloaded them straight away. I prefer using Ubuntu because it is clean, fast, intuitive and pretty. Since I have moved to Firefox, Thunderbird and Open Office; I can now access my data files from either system. After installing Vista and Ubuntu 7.10 I would have to say that Linux has come of age. The install was significantly quicker, easier and I only had to answer a few questions. Those who haven't looked at Ubuntu won't know that it is not only a complete OS, but it is a complete computing system. It is fully loaded with anything you would ever need in a computer from the beginning. You can also go to add programs and select from a huge list of applications that are there waiting for you to install. Christmas came early for me this year! Jeff Jeff Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] SanDC, Inc. 623-582-0323 Fax 623-869-0675 Alan Bourke wrote: > Jeff Johnson wrote: >> Would it be a good idea to partition a D drive with fat32 so I can >> access it from either OS? Is there any down side to using files on a >> fat32 formatted drive with XP? >> > NTFS is superior. You can use NTFS-3g which is integrated into Ubuntu > 7.10 to give you read/write access to NTFS volumes. > > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
