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Dual Booting

pirateerpirateer Member UncommonPosts: 219
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I was wondering... how hard is it to dual boot? And what does dual booting look like? How do the operating systems integrate?

 

I'm looking into dual booting my pre-installed Vista with Ubuntu. I found an article here that gives a pretty good tutorial, IMO. Just looking for advice here and everything that I should know about dual booting. Linux looks pretty good and I want it on my computer

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  • pirateerpirateer Member UncommonPosts: 219

    How will it run, though? Meaning, will I be able to opt between Vista and Ubuntu on command while on my computer? If not, then how is that managed? Vista graphics, Ubuntu tasks

     

    As of right now, I'm doubting a dual boot system, I don't really see how it could work or any advantages from it.

     

    edit - I read the dual boot Wikipedia article, and it seems that both won't run at the same time, if I'm not mistaken? I could switch between the two on every startup. Now, I would want to back up all my data on my computer before I go and install Ubuntu on my computer. Any way I could go about doing this free of charge?

     

    edit2 - Also, if you don't mind, could somebody read through my linked article in the main post and see if that is correct? I don't feel like messing up my $1200 computer.

     

    And if something went wrong, would my computer get far enough in the startup to where I could completely reset my computer? (like by pressing F10 on startup and doing a complete system restore, the day it was manufactured)

  • pirateerpirateer Member UncommonPosts: 219

    Well, I'm about to burn the Linux live DVD and install it. I'll let you know after all is said and done

     

    You've been a big help, Nasica. I thank you with everything that I have

  • pirateerpirateer Member UncommonPosts: 219

    OK, Nasica, you are my hero. I installed Linux on my system, and it is so cool! So much more functional than any Windows OS. Only problem is compatibility with games

     

    Oh well, now I need help configuring my network... Linux is not registering my Linksys WUSB54GC as being connected to my computer, and I cannot install anything that is .exe (corruption maybe? or is Linux not able to work with .exe?) Anyway, once I get that resolved, Linux will be my main OS. Hurrah! Or as the Romans would say... euge!

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