Ubuntu 7.04

[Adrian Wainer]

I did not create a system restore point when I installed Gimp and I did not realize, till quite a bit later that it was probably the DLL that went along with Gimp that degraded the system, so how I got out out that problem was to add more RAM and upgrade the Graphics card from a 5700 to a 6800GS which brought the system up to a level before the problem plus a bit extra performance and when I re-installed XP for a another reason I got the original performance of the machine back plus the performance benefit from the added RAM and better Graphics card. I did not re-install the Gimp, which I had to delete at the time I re-installed the XP. Anyway Gimp is now in a version two, so I might install that.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

[Adrian Wainer]

Ubuntu (Linux distribution)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_(Linux_distribution)#_note-16

Ubuntu 7.04
The power of open source.
On your laptop, desktop and server.
Smart. Secure. Easy.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

How to Install Ubuntu 7.04 (Windows User P.O.V.) - Ubuntu 7.04 installation guide.
By: Marius Nestor, Linux Editor

http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-t...-V-52973.shtml

Installing a Dual-Boot with Windows and Ubuntu

http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/installing

Windows with NTFS + Feisty Fawn
with /home Partition

http://users.bigpond.net.au/hermanzone/p14.htm

Dual Booting Ubuntu Linux and Windows on a Toshiba Laptop

http://www.matthewjmiller.net/howtos...x-and-windows/

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

[angels355]

Thanks very much.

[Adrian Wainer]

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Then jumper the 2nd HDD as Master temporarily, install Ubuntu (or Kubuntu), try it out, then when you're ready to hook the Windows Master back up, jumper the 2nd Ubuntu HDD back to Slave, hook both HDD's back up, then when you boot up you can choose between the OS's. Perhaps XP will offer the choice between the two OS's, or if not you can go into the bios and select to boot from the Slave HDD.
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Maybe you know something, I do not but the idea of putting two hard drives on-line, both of which have operating systems: sounds like a recipe for disaster.

Best and Warm Regards
Adrian Wainer

[loki]

Why would it be a recipe for disaster? It's little different than partitioning one drive for two OS's. Actually I think it's a little bit safer as you aren't as likely to wipe out one OS's partition while formatting the second one. It's worked just fine for me for years now.

loki

[angels355]

Hi loki and Adrian,

Regarding disaster, I try to do my best to always have my most crucial files backed up as soon as I create them, for those files, backing them up is part of the creation process. That's on my active computer where new files are created, my others which are basically used for flight simming once had tons of files that needed backing up, because I didn't have a cdrw. Finally I got one, and the prescribed method of backing these files up was to take out the HDD, plug it in as a slave to the cdrw computer, and backup away. It took a long time, perhaps as much as a 4 cm high stack of cdr's, but once done, I've been very organized, and very diligent since then. Now if I need to reinstall Windows it can be relatively painless (except that I only have dialup). Backing up the first time was such a nightmare that I try not to let that happen again. Since then I've added two cdrw's and one cdr (cd writer, found among artifacts in Tutankamun's tomb), especially for Linux it would be great to get a DVD burner. Haven't found one yet that fits my budget ($5 hee hee!).

For ultra crucial files I also back those up on magnetic media. According to a physics report a couple years ago, the thermal plastic in standard cd-r's (dvd-r's also I presume) is only stable for 2 to 5 years, better w/ higher quality media and cooler temps, much worse if they get exposed to heat. HDD's are superior also.

That was a great link to the Linux magazine. I think we have 2 Linux mags in our area, but I haven't seen that one.

I'm looking forward to checking out pc-bsd.

[meine]

OK guys I burned the Ubuntu 7.04 as .iso image successfully and launched the LiveCD, which boots up a "CD" version of Ubuntu. I messed around with that for a while, but I'm not ready to install yet, I'm on my way to get some CDs to back up my data, what freeware program do you guys recommend to do my ghosting?

Thanks!!!!

[meine]

Hey guys, I launched the LiveCD once again (just now) and went straight ahead to the installation, unfortunately, when I got to the "partition" screen it will not allow me to do less than 40GB space for the new partition, and I only have 30GB of free space in my HDD (Out of a total 80GB.)

This screenshot, is an example of the screen I am talking about, however, unlike this screenshot, I am not able to "resize" the partition size to 4.6GB, I can only "resize" the partition to around %61 which is no good, since it's about 40GB (And me having only 30GB of space unoccupied in my HDD, I don't want to have to delete my windows partition.)


http://communitymx.com/content/sourc...disk_space.jpg

Please explain to me why this is happening and if/how I can fix this

Your feedback is appreciated.

[meine]

OK guys, I took a screenshot of what is exactly happening with my LiveCD, here it is:






.....Apparently it is not letting me resize my HDD to anything less than 45.6 GB for some reason. I have tried running the liveCD with the installation set-up several times and I still get the same issue. Once again, I have a 80GB HDD with only 29.1 GB of freespace (to be exact) and resizing my HDD partition to anything more than that will most likely erase my Windows XP-which is not something I want to do.

Any help at all is greatly appreciated, thanks.

[loki]

That option is talking about resizing your Windows partition to free up room on the drive, not picking the size of your Linux partitions directly. In your case it won't let you go any lower than 46GBs to prevent you from loosing data. Once you tell the installer how much to shrink the existing Windows partition, it will shrink it and then use the space freed up to create the new Linux partitions (there are always at least 2 Linux partitions).

I would only shrink your Windows partition to about 60GBs, otherwise you will run out of room on the Windows side.

loki