[TriLUG] Dual-boot

[Henry Middleton]

Is there an upcoming installfest?


On Sat, Oct 23, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Matt Pusateri
<mpusateri at wickedtrails.com>wrote:

> Depends on what you are doing, virtualization on laptops/desktops are
> usually slow and painful...
>
> On Oct 22, 2010, at 8:53 PM, Joseph Tate wrote:
>
> > You really only need 6-8GB of disk space for Linux, until you start
> > getting a lot of personal data on there.
> >
> > That said, I don't know that I would recommend anyone dual boot
> > anymore.  Both OS have decent virtualization platforms available, so
> > pick your primary OS, and then boot the secondary OS in a virtual
> > machine when it is wanted.  For me, Linux is primary, and I have two
> > XP images I boot when I need to test my software on IE7 or IE8.
> >
> > On Windows, Virtual Server was pretty good in 2004 when I used it
> > last, and now it's free.  VirtualBox is free and Free and runs on both
> > Windows and Linux.
> >
> > My pro-tip for multi-OS folks is to have some sort of shared storage
> > so that you don't duplicate your data; either a USB harddrive, network
> > share, or separate file system accessible from both OS so that you can
> > share and transfer files between the two.
> >
> > On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Henry Middleton <hm1315 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> I have a Toshiba laptop with a 223 GB hard drive. It already has Win7. I
> am
> >> thinking of making it a dual-boot. When I partition the drive how much
> space
> >> is good for each OS? I also want to make separate partitions for
> Ubuntu's
> >> root, swap, and home.
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