A Linux User in Vista-land: Part 1
With my Acer Aspire 5050 I received a free Express upgrade to Vista Premium. After all the talk of DRM, and low performance I at first shunned it as a clearly inferior OS, but my curiosity got the better of me and I had to try it out.
Installation:
Not wanting to touch my Windows XP install, I attempted to install onto a USB disk drive. **BONG BONG BONG** YOU CAN’T DO THAT! No doubt Microsoft doesn’t want you taking the disc around to all your computers (which is, admittedly, exactly what I was about to do for testing purposes). Oh well. So I took the 2.5 inch hard drive out of its case and swapped it with the hard drive in my laptop. At least Linux doesn’t care where its installed.
The installation itself is very painless (as I would expect it to be). Just select the partition and go. I selected the first partition on the disc(22 GB), and went. Interestingly, with this Express upgrade CD, you can do a fresh install without an existing Windows installation. I’m not sure if this DVD will only work on this particular computer, however. It took about 30 minutes to install, and then rebooted itself, coming back to a configuration dialog.
Also:
One of the most teething problems involving Vista is that because of the way Microsoft have changed the booting process, the traditional boot.ini method no longer works. After scouring over the Internet and helping a friend over this, here a simple approach to dual booting.
In this scenario, I’ve considered that Ubuntu Feisty Fawn was installed first to an ext3 partition. Next,Vista was installed to a NTFS partition(note that here ‘m using only 1 hdd, multiple partitions). The Vista install process will overwrite GRUB, leaving you no way of booting into Ubuntu. So after the Vista install, boot into Ubuntu using the live CD.
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