seopher.com — Or so the results of the latest poll state. Clearly there is room for the results to vary but it's looking like one of the key problems for Linux is that a high number of Windows users are scared to dual boot.
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threadOct 13, 2006
> parallels is probably the best solution to come out so far, and> i'm just wondering why the hell someone hasn't duplicated it in> linux yet.Uhh.. they have it for linux.<a class="user" href="http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/">http://www.parallels.com/en/products/workstation/</a>
plagiatsOct 13, 2006
Markus : Do you know what you're talking about ?
x3nosOct 13, 2006
Doesn't dual booting kindof defeat the purpose of Linux. I know that most users from a windows background are preconditioned to thinking that reboots are a part of everyday life, a viable fix for system issues and just plain part of computing. Not so. Ask any Unix/Linux system admin and he can probably within the proximity of a few days tell you how long his uptime is. Heck some systems running Unix or Linux stay up for months, sometimes years at a time. Dual boots are cool and all, they afford some bragging rights if you get them to work, practically they suck and with the minimal system reqs for a linux box for less than a few hundred bucks you can scrap together a spare box for linux no prob. What I do if I want to take a windows box and run linux to "check it out" and my recommendation is to download knoppix live cd [gentoo, phlak, live distro of choice], install Virtual PC (free) attach the iso as your CD drive and whammo you get Linux inside your MS enviro with zero headache. I think this should satisfy the curious types that want to play with Linux but are still for whatever reason beholden to running Windows.
brianholidayOct 13, 2006
We can fix this, it is a small issue. Someone just needs to sit down and front end the installer with a mandatory image style backup of the computers drive to an external source. No skip, MAKE them do it. Then distribute it in Ubuntu. Problem solved. A more long winded version can be found on the linked site.
ryan4477Oct 13, 2006
for me linux really is easier. its just getting out of the windoze habbit htats so hard for some people.
gmorganOct 14, 2006
I've never seen GRUB become corrupt. Which version were you using, the current version (which no distro I know of uses) isn't up to much but legacy GRUB is very stable and is what everyone uses.The only time I've had any trouble with legacy GRUB is in between installing extra OSes. GRUB even allows you to run Win 98 on hdb (primary slave) by mapping the HDD's to different positions conning Windows into booting.Personally I run Win 98 (old games), Win XP, Ubuntu and Solaris on my main box. Works perfectly everytime. Dual booting is pathetically easy once you know what you are doing. Just get your head around the XP installer and backup everything so theres never a end of machine scenario.A way to practice would be to install VMware Server and setup a dual boot on there.
gmorganOct 14, 2006
Theres an easier way than this. You still need a live cd but when the boot loader comes up hit c to goto a GRUB command line and enter #root (hd0,0)#setup (hd0)#rebootYou don't even need to load up another OS (unless you count GRUB as an OS). Obviously substitute root for wherever your /boot/ or / partition is depending on how your distro is setup.
gmorganOct 14, 2006
VMware is better than Parallels quite frankly and VMs aren't as CPU intensive or unstable as the ill informed would have you believe.Xen will own all once it is ready though.
Closed AccountOct 14, 2006
It's not 'grub' becoming corrupt, it's the MBR on the master hd or primary partition that becomes corrupt. It gets corrupt because Windows does not like to share it with any other OS. Do a search for the error message I mentioned in my previous post.