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Mom2one · 05-29-2007

I haven't used it myself since uni, but I am debating partitioning my new laptop for duel boot when it comes. I'd like to get back into linux, and keep myself current on available flavours and so on.

Any other users here?

jessi_rubin · 06-01-2007

why do you need to partition it into two different OSes. if you want to use linux just for the purpose of using it then go for LIVE linux cds. Just format your windows partition in fat32 format so that you can access it from linux.

Mom2one · 06-02-2007

The flavour that I wish to run cannot be run from CD. Besides, it's not a hard thing to do, just takes a little time to set up. Fat32 is a must regardless of whether it is a partitioned dual boot system or not, because I want access for all my files always.

nforce · 07-16-2007

still I had hard disks on my laptop which I had partitioned with size more than 32gb resulting in me not able to use fat filesystem on my laptop hard disk. I had to go for ext3 and some partition with songs was made as fat32 so that I could listen up to them through both of the OSes.

luigi-di-violini · 12-03-2007

My cousin is a computer tech and he set our computer up for duel boot into Linux, which is great backup for when Windows acts up. We have an online business so it is important to have a backup system to be able to rely on.

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Mom2one Consumer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 99	Any Linux Users? I haven't used it myself since uni, but I am debating partitioning my new laptop for duel boot when it comes. I'd like to get back into linux, and keep myself current on available flavours and so on. Any other users here?

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06-01-2007	#2 (permalink)
jessi_rubin Consumer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 30	why do you need to partition it into two different OSes. if you want to use linux just for the purpose of using it then go for LIVE linux cds. Just format your windows partition in fat32 format so that you can access it from linux.

06-02-2007	#3 (permalink)
Mom2one Consumer Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 99	The flavour that I wish to run cannot be run from CD. Besides, it's not a hard thing to do, just takes a little time to set up. Fat32 is a must regardless of whether it is a partitioned dual boot system or not, because I want access for all my files always.

07-16-2007	#4 (permalink)
nforce Consumer Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 62	still I had hard disks on my laptop which I had partitioned with size more than 32gb resulting in me not able to use fat filesystem on my laptop hard disk. I had to go for ext3 and some partition with songs was made as fat32 so that I could listen up to them through both of the OSes.

12-03-2007	#5 (permalink)
luigi-di-violini Consumer Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: California Age: 29 Posts: 28	My cousin is a computer tech and he set our computer up for duel boot into Linux, which is great backup for when Windows acts up. We have an online business so it is important to have a backup system to be able to rely on.