I like Maurice's suggestion about VirtualBox. That's the way I'll do it. Thanks
Michael Cross -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, August 02, 2010 6:00 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2 Send Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-accessibility digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 (Maurice McCarthy) 2. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 (Maurice McCarthy) 3. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 (Maurice McCarthy) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:16:30 +0100 From: Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 I've inspected a laptop with Windows 7 installed from DVD using a grml live CD. (http://grml.org is an administrator's distro with masses of text based tools. As it supports speak-up, as early as possible in the boot process, this makes it excellent for the visually impaired who want to learn system administration. But the learning curve is steep!) The laptop has two partitions. The boot partition is first. It begins at sector 2048 and is 105MB in size and is 25% used. The remainder of the 120GB disk is C: drive. The bare installation used 6GB on this drive. If you are not using Windows much then I'd install that first. It may allow you to limit the amount of disk used or else or installing vinux you can easily resize the 2nd partition to make space. 100 GB should be plenty. The partition system is inherited from MSDOS and linux used the same partitioning so that dual booting could be achieved. Linux partitions start at sector 63 so I can only guess that Windows is putting a lot of boot code into sectors 1-2047. Sector 0 is the master boot record or mbr and it contains the partition table. Installing Vinux second will overwrite some this with grub2 unless you install grub into the Vinux partition instead of the beginning of the disc. They have to chain the windows boot loader to Vinux. Google for EasyBCD for a windows solution to this. Good Luck ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 17:36:14 +0100 From: Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu The above link is a step by step installation of Ubuntu (& therefore Vinux) next Windows 7 or Vista with the assistance of EasyBCD. Maurice ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:28:34 +0100 From: Maurice McCarthy <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6 To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Instead of all the hassle of partitioning etc. (unless you just like all that sort of stuff for its own sake) have you thought of installing VirtualBox or qemu-kvm into Vinux and then running all your other systems as virtual machines. You would still need a legitimate Windows 7 installation disk. In my opinion it is worth your time to do so. In fact a lot of OS development is done on virtual machines these days. Maurice ------------------------------ -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility End of Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2 *************************************************** -- Ubuntu-accessibility mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-accessibility
