[ale] Is it risky?

[Robert L. Harris]

Ubuntu latest and virtual box (some people just gotta play native
solitaire...)

On Sat, Aug 29, 2015, 12:15 Paul Cartwright <pbcartwright at gmail.com> wrote:

> I just got a new computer. It had windows 8.1 on it. the first thing I
> did was upgrade to windows 10, complete all the updates.
> then I shrunk the windows partition, and added my 2nd drive. Then I
> installed fedora 22, then I installed ubuntu server. grub says I can
> boot windows, ubuntu, and fedora. I have been in a long thread on the
> fedora group about UEFI, and grub issues.. the UEFI & grub boot process
> is... wacky to say the least.. it changes all things grub going forward.
> YMMV :)
>
>
> > Actually, it's the other way around. There's a long documented list of
> > things Microsoft has done to make dual booting as hard as they can
> > without getting slapped by DoJ.
> >
> > The basic way to dual boot is this:
> >
> > Start with a blank(ed) hard drive. Install win7 first and only allow
> > it half the hard drive. Leave the second half unpartitioned. Do all
> > the windows updates even though it may take days and many reboots. Now
> > install Linux on the empty space. Learn how to reinstall grub using a
> > live CD because later win7 updates will screw it up and you won't be
> > able to boot to Linux.
> >
> > The better solution is boot from your favorite Linux distro disk, wipe
> > the drive and install Linux ONLY and never look back. If you must use
> > some windows application for work, learn how to use virtual machines
> > from Linux.
> >
> > On August 28, 2015 9:56:17 PM EDT, John Caruso <misrerenobis at aol.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> >     This last time after about 6 or 7 tries Ubuntu trashed both of my
> >     hard drives and would not run. I had a backup of Windows 7 taken
> >     about 3 weeks ago and some of the 7 dvds I used were useless so I
> >     basically lost everything and did not have Linux afterward. I
> >     think there is an incompatibility between Win 7 and Linux. Don't
> >     know if I want to go thru that again.Maybe Linux was not meant to
> >     share an OS.
> >
> >
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