[Chester LUG] Chester Digest, Vol 271, Issue 7

[Stuart Burns]

Well I spent a good few hours yesterday trying to get ANY Linux to dual
boot. I just gave up in the END. EFI and MAC just seem to be a complete
pain.

On 25 February 2013 11:39, Bogus Zaba <bogus at bogzab.plus.com> wrote:

>  On 22/02/13 17:57, Roger Gibson wrote:
>
>> I dual boot Windoze 7 with Ubuntu (updated through many versions)and
>>> have no problems with rwx access to Windoze partitions (same on my
>>> desktop, laptop and notebook).
>>>
>>> Although I use a separate ntfs partition for my 'data' files, so as  to
>>> facilitate reloading/changing loaded OS, (MS software support
>>> recommended to me reloading Windoze every 12 months to remove
>>> 'inevitable ongoing corruptions')
>>>
>> Stranger here - I have never been to the Chester LUG, but I have been
> lurking on the list for a while (based in Denbighshire and working in
> Liverpool so passing through Chester quite a lot).
>
> Just to contribute to the dual-booting discussion - my Thinkpad laptop
> dual boots Slackware and Windows 7 quite happily, although with VirtualBox,
> QEMU and Wine I rarely need to actually cold-boot into Windows. Slackware
> comes with LILO as the boot manager and only command line utilities for
> re-sizing the partitions which you need to do when installing Linux on a PC
> with Windows pre-loaded but it all worked fine for me - I can read and
> write to the original Windows (NTFS) partition as required with no issues.
> There may have been some magic stuff had to be put into /etc/fstab to
> achieve the write-access if I recall correctly.
>
> Bogus Zaba
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Stuart Burns
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