Vista with Ubuntu too

[The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy]

No need - I have Ubuntu running in a VPC 2007 virtual machine...

Ditto, but on VM ware. I want to take the dual boot I have with Vista
and switch it with the Ubuntoo VM so that I can dual boot XP and Ubuntoo
and run vista in a virtual machine. I want to do this because currently
I can't get all the eye candy in Ubuntoo to work in the VM.

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[The poster formerly known as Nina DiBoy]

I have a co-worker who has a couple of Macs... likes them quite a bit.
(Which I take as good testimony since we have zero Macs to support on
our project.) He's sung the praises of Parallels. Sounds pretty
interesting. I've wanted to buy a Mac for years but each time I buy a
new computer, PC's just whip the sh*t out of Macs "bang for the
buck-wise." Having seen the promos for Leopard, I may start saving up
for a Mac purchase after Leopard is released.

Lang

You may consider a mac mini. They are only median power and computing
wise, but run a slim $500 approx.

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[Lang Murphy]

No doubt it will be expensive. But I probably will stick to 15.4" or it
will be too heavy for me on the road and use an external monitor at the
office and home.


Same here.


I also heard that's a pretty good product but I will wait a bit of longer
to test it.

Heh... I think we're talking different animals... I'm talking iMac... I
think you're talking laptop. Though I could be wrong. In any case, Apple
discontinued the 15" iMac; the smallest iMac one can get now is the 17".

Windows Home Server (WHS) is very interesting. I've had an issue or two with
it since installing the two days ago. But it's still beta code and I think
MS expects to sell more WHS on OEM boxes than selling the OEM software to
goofs like me who will try to force it to run on some archaic HW. They may
or may not be right on that count. Don't know. Actually, the HW I installed
WHS on is not that archaic and I still had to manually install drivers for
the NIC, audio, video, and chipset. All in all, I think it's a great product
from what I've seen thus far.

Lang

 

[xfile]

We are in fact talking about two different animals, ha ha ha.

I have been thinking about the 17" notebook for some time and probably that
was in my head when I read your post.

The server products is one of the company's strengths, and I think this one
might be as well. I will wait for a while before I test it, kind of busy
now. Both 2003 server and SQL 2005 are fine products, and they are the
major reasons why I still stick to the client side OS and tools. If we
moved to other server technogies (which are slowly in progress), the client
side will have no problems at all.

Probably at the end of year, I will spend some time on this Home Server and
see how it goes, and thanks for sharing! Have fun

 

[Guest]

hi
i have an acer aspire 5610 laptop with windows vista. I have just installed
ubuntu 6.06 on it by partitioning the C drive intoan extended partion having
logical partitions for linux and swap space. I did it while installation of
ubuntu itself and now i cannot boot into windows vista again. the grub shows
windows nt/2000/xp as the operating system and on selectig it the windows XP
booting screen comes up then immediately the acer recovery management tool
starts and aks me to restore the system to factory settings which will format
the C drive again. What can i do to restore vista without it . please help .
i tried ntfsfix as suggested in one forum but it did not work. pease help me.

 

[Kerry Brown]

hi
i have an acer aspire 5610 laptop with windows vista. I have just
installed ubuntu 6.06 on it by partitioning the C drive intoan extended
partion having logical partitions for linux and swap space. I did it
while installation of ubuntu itself and now i cannot boot into windows
vista again. the grub shows windows nt/2000/xp as the operating system
and on selectig it the windows XP booting screen comes up then
immediately the acer recovery management tool starts and aks me to
restore the system to factory settings which will format the C drive
again. What can i do to restore vista without it . please help . i tried
ntfsfix as suggested in one forum but it did not work. pease help me.

Start a terminal session in Ubuntu. Type the following command.

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Scroll down to the entry for Vista. It should look something like this:

title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

You may have to edit (hd0,0) depending on where Vista is installed. I'm
guessing if your Acer restore partition is still there it may be (hd0,1).
Hd0 is the hard drive and as you have a laptop it's unlikely you have more
than one. The second parameter ",0" is the partition.

If you have a Vista DVD you could boot from it and do a Startup
Repair to restore the Vista boot sector. You may have to run the Startup
Repair twice. This will eliminate grub altogether so you will lose the
ability to boot into Ubuntu. The last alternative is to boot into Ubuntu
and save your data on the Vista partition to external media then run the
Acer factory restore from the disks you created when you first got the
computer. This will erase everything and restore the factory setup.

 

[Guest]

Start a terminal session in Ubuntu. Type the following command.

sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

Scroll down to the entry for Vista. It should look something like this:

title Windows Vista/Longhorn (loader)
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader +1

You may have to edit (hd0,0) depending on where Vista is installed. I'm
guessing if your Acer restore partition is still there it may be (hd0,1).
Hd0 is the hard drive and as you have a laptop it's unlikely you have more
than one. The second parameter ",0" is the partition.

If you have a Vista DVD you could boot from it and do a Startup
Repair to restore the Vista boot sector. You may have to run the Startup
Repair twice. This will eliminate grub altogether so you will lose the
ability to boot into Ubuntu. The last alternative is to boot into Ubuntu
and save your data on the Vista partition to external media then run the
Acer factory restore from the disks you created when you first got the
computer. This will erase everything and restore the factory setup.

thanks a lot .... changing the grub entry helped now i can boot properly
into windows and ubuntu both...... could not understand the use of acer
recovery ..... should i add it as another option in grub or is it fine
without it as well......

 

[Kerry Brown]

thanks a lot .... changing the grub entry helped now i can boot properly
into windows and ubuntu both...... could not understand the use of acer
recovery ..... should i add it as another option in grub or is it fine
without it as well......

You should be able to access the Acer recovery partition by pressing a key
on startup. I can't remember which key it is. As long as this works I
wouldn't bother with adding a grub entry for it.