<p dir="ltr">Ubuntu latest and virtual box (some people just gotta play native solitaire...)<br>
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<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Aug 29, 2015, 12:15 Paul Cartwright <<a href="mailto:pbcartwright@gmail.com">pbcartwright@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I just got a new computer. It had windows 8.1 on it. the first thing I<br>
did was upgrade to windows 10, complete all the updates.<br>
then I shrunk the windows partition, and added my 2nd drive. Then I<br>
installed fedora 22, then I installed ubuntu server. grub says I can<br>
boot windows, ubuntu, and fedora. I have been in a long thread on the<br>
fedora group about UEFI, and grub issues.. the UEFI & grub boot process<br>
is... wacky to say the least.. it changes all things grub going forward.<br>
YMMV :)<br>
<br>
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> Actually, it's the other way around. There's a long documented list of<br>
> things Microsoft has done to make dual booting as hard as they can<br>
> without getting slapped by DoJ.<br>
><br>
> The basic way to dual boot is this:<br>
><br>
> Start with a blank(ed) hard drive. Install win7 first and only allow<br>
> it half the hard drive. Leave the second half unpartitioned. Do all<br>
> the windows updates even though it may take days and many reboots. Now<br>
> install Linux on the empty space. Learn how to reinstall grub using a<br>
> live CD because later win7 updates will screw it up and you won't be<br>
> able to boot to Linux.<br>
><br>
> The better solution is boot from your favorite Linux distro disk, wipe<br>
> the drive and install Linux ONLY and never look back. If you must use<br>
> some windows application for work, learn how to use virtual machines<br>
> from Linux.<br>
><br>
> On August 28, 2015 9:56:17 PM EDT, John Caruso <<a href="mailto:misrerenobis@aol.com" target="_blank">misrerenobis@aol.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
><br>
> This last time after about 6 or 7 tries Ubuntu trashed both of my<br>
> hard drives and would not run. I had a backup of Windows 7 taken<br>
> about 3 weeks ago and some of the 7 dvds I used were useless so I<br>
> basically lost everything and did not have Linux afterward. I<br>
> think there is an incompatibility between Win 7 and Linux. Don't<br>
> know if I want to go thru that again.Maybe Linux was not meant to<br>
> share an OS.<br>
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