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Topic: [SOLVED] Advice and such...

Had to install XP back onto the old lappy for itunes - need to have support for the iPod touch and I need Windows or Mac for AAMCAS to let me apply to med school hmm

I know that there are 10,000+ guides online for how to set up a dual boot of *unix and windows. My question for all of you wonderful people is: Which guide would you recommend?

Last edited by stopie (2009-09-19 08:17:26)

  • kBang
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Re: [SOLVED] Advice and such...

stopie wrote:

Had to install XP back onto the old lappy for itunes - need to have support for the iPod touch and I need Windows or Mac for AAMCAS to let me apply to med school hmm

I know that there are 10,000+ guides online for how to set up a dual boot of *unix and windows. My question for all of you wonderful people is: Which guide would you recommend?

Top notch guide for Windows XP:

1) Install XP.
2) Burn copy of minimal Ubuntu install.
3) Install minimal Ubuntu.
4) Run #! script.

Viola!

I view KDE like I view snow. It looks fun and marvelous, it's fun to play in, but after a while I just want someone to take it all away.
  • Registered: 2009-05-11
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Re: [SOLVED] Advice and such...

OT, I know, and I haven't used Windows forever, so can't help there (last time I did dual boot it was with PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu), but, I just had to say,
I LOVE  your sig line about KDE...hehe big_smile

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Re: [SOLVED] Advice and such...

kBang wrote:

Top notch guide for Windows XP:

1) Install XP.
2) Burn copy of minimal Ubuntu install.
3) Install minimal Ubuntu.
4) Run #! script.

Viola!

Thats it? Ubuntu will guide me? (cant do minimal cd because it doesnt like me)

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Re: [SOLVED] Advice and such...

stopie wrote:

(cant do minimal cd because it doesnt like me)

In what way does a minimal install not like you?  It's the cleanest, fastest way to install.  Takes me less than 10 minutes to do a minimal ubuntu install, #! takes ~45 minutes with the script (full install of #!).

Nothing will truely guide you, everything I have ever tried wants to put your windows partition to the minimal space possible, i.e. you will never b e able to add anything ever again to windows and likely crash due to no space even when logging in.

If you can handle manually setting up your paritions, which you just about have to do these days on any multi-boot, you should have no issues.  #! full edition only takes about 2.5gb space including the ubuntu minimal base.  You can easily get away with a 20gb partition or even smaller, keep your music and video files on your windows partition so you can access them from either windows or linux.

I view KDE like I view snow. It looks fun and marvelous, it's fun to play in, but after a while I just want someone to take it all away.