I have read somewhere that MINT will not be using Unity, This an other distros built on Ubuntu my be a better option.
Thanks Peter On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 10:04 AM, danyJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello > > For those in Melbourne, nearby and in Victoria (and if you are anywhere > else it still applies), Linux Users of > Victoria (LUV) runs a Beginners Workshop on the 3rd Saturday of every month > at the HUB in Docklands. Its a free > event, and everyone is welcome (not just members). Although it is not a > specifically Ubuntu event, Ubuntu tends > to take a fair amount of people's time at the event. See www.luv.asn.aufor > more info, including exact > location details. > > The next meeting is this Saturday 16, April 11.00 to 16.00. (although if > you get there at 11 and sees noone, > just hang around a little bit, because it is not unusual for the organisers > to be a bit late!!) > > The kind of issues experienced by Adrian de Bruyn are among the ones which > can be dealt with. > > Cheers > Daniel > > > > On Sat, 9 Apr 2011 14:00:07 -0700 (PDT) > Chris Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > From: Adrian J de Bruyn <[email protected]> > > To: Ubuntu AU List <[email protected]> > > Sent: Sat, 9 April, 2011 9:08:45 AM > > Subject: windows7 dual boot > > > > G'day all > > Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried > to > > install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, > I > > think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a > > choice. > > What am I doing wrong? > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > Probably nothing you are doing. From my reading of Ubuntu Forums, there > appears > > to be a bug in the installer in 10.10 (Very regrettable - a bad intro to > a great > > OS) > > > > I don't dual boot with Windows so I'm unable to test it. From what you > are > > describing it seems that grub does not get installed correctly. One way > around > > this would be to specify the partitions manually, as this advanced mode > does not > > have any problems. If you're going to do this I would highly recommend > setting > > up a separate /home partition because that allows you to re-install, > upgrade, > > repair etc the / (root) partition that the OS sits on at will, without > risking > > your important data and settings. > > > > So, you would have a Windows partition (NTFS), a Linux boot partition > (ext4, > > 15-20 GB recommended), a /home partition (ext4, as big as you can spare) > and a > > swap partition (at least the size of your installed RAM recommended). > Specifiy > > sda (first hard drive) as the device to install grub onto and it should > work > > perfectly giving you the option to boot into either Windows or Ubuntu. > > > > If you don't feel comfortable with the more advanced manual setup, you > might > > want to try the 10.04 release which should work fine. 10.04 is the LTS > (long > > term support) release and is perfectly fine, in fact it's the most stable > > current release and the one I recommend for newcomers to Linux. > > > > It's also possible that you just need to install grub to the hard drive > from the > > LiveCD. Go over to ubuntuforums.org and ask for help from the > knowledgeable > > folks over there. (Because I've never had to do it this way) > > > > > > BTW, if you want to be able to access your ext 4 partitions, particularly > /home > > from windows, just install the open source ext2 driver under Windows. > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > -- > This message has been scanned for viruses and > dangerous content by MailScanner, and is > believed to be clean. > > For All your Open Source and IT requirements see: www.greenwareit.com.au > > > > -- > ubuntu-au mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au >
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