If you have even a modestly recent machine, I recommend going for a single ubuntu installation and running Windows under VirtualBox. Beats restarting the machine to get into windows again and again and also sidesteps the partitioning issues. There is almost no loss of performance for typical productivity apps.
cheers nilesh http://nileshtrivedi.in +91-9717-353-059 On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Hardeep Singh < [email protected]> wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Manish > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 12:07 PM > To: Ubuntu India Local Community > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-in] Fwd: Warning with Ubuntu crap > > > What do you mean from scratch? A fresh installation? > > Yes, instead of upgrading, if you install Ubuntu after formatting your > linux > partition, it used to pick up usernames from Windows partitions and create > Ubuntu users with the same name, it refuses to do recognize windows now. > Also grub used to add a link to Windows bootloader, it doesn't do that > anymore, just gives you the option to boot into Ubuntu, Ubuntu failsafe > mode > and Memory Check. > > > >Vista bootloader can boot Ubuntu as well? An alternative is to load GRUB > from Vista bootloader but AFAIK windows bootloader can't chainload. > > I guess I wasn't able to explain it properly, EasyBCD adds a link to Grub > Stage 2 in Vista bootloader. > > >Looks better? Bootloader has nothing to do with looks, its about > functionality. If you want a pleasing looking bootloader try Fedora, or > you can manually modify the background of GRUB from Ubuntu too. > > It's a matter of personal preference my friend, I prefer to have a right to > choose what bootloader I want to use. I don't really need those Blue/Green > bootloaders (looking better doesn't mean adding colours), all I want is a > 'choice' to use what I want. I wish Ubuntu could give me that choice, > instead of me using third party windows softwares to get what I want. > > Hardeep Singh > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in >
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