Dual booting Vista & Ubuntu on G1S

Er hey guys, anyone here has a good tut on how to dual boot vista & ubuntu and Ubuntu installation guide too. I tried searching aready but couldnt seem to find a good tut.

thanks =)

 

Rulebreaker,

Here's a guide for different dual-booting scenarios: http://apcmag.com/node/5162/

Here's a specific guide for Vista/Linux dual-booting:
http://apcmag.com/5046/how_to_dual_boot_vista_with_linux_vista_installed_first

In order to install any Linux successfully, you should be familiar on how to partition your disk. Otherwise you might wipe everything from your hard disk, including your installed Vista and your valuable data.

Normally you will create three partitions for Linux installation:

1. Primary ext3 partition for / root file system. Typically 5GB - 10GB or more depending how much software you will install.

2. Primary/Extended swap partition for swap. Should be equal or larger than your your RAM size [2GB - 4GB]

3. Primary/Extended ext3 partition for /home directories. Typically 5GB or more depending of your needs.

You may also want to resize your Vista or D: drive, so here's a guide for this:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-gparted-to-resize-your-windows-vista-partition/



Good luck!

Br,
/Tomi

 

As we don't have the original Vista installation disk, you may also want to download this Vista recovery CD image (120MB) in order to fix the MBR:
http://neosmart.net/blog/2008/windows-vista-recovery-disc-download/

 

Try Ubuntu screencasts

 

ok thanks, ill try i update on how it goes.

 

ok, i used VMware. But i cant seem to get the graphic driver to work. They said i had to enable it from "Restricted Drivers Manager" but when i go to that option, it says i have no restricted drivers..

 

Rulebreaker,

VMWare is a very good option to run Linux. Another is Virtualbox.

Actually, you don't need to [or even can't] install the restricted drivers when running in VMWare on Virtualbox, because the system running inside VMWare's virtualized system environment will only see a general VESA-compatible display driver. And this is also the main reason why the screen [and other peripheral] performance is a bit slow on the system running in virtualized machine.

/Tomi

 

yea..the mouse seems jerky. i thought it was the graphic driver problem because when i scroll in firefox it seems like a scanner *not sure how to explain*, its like when u use a old camera to take the TV-Screen.