[NTLUG:Discuss] Vista & Linux installers.

[Jeff]

Right now I'm running Ubuntu as my main OS and have a vista partition 
for a couple of games.  I installed Vista first, then Ubuntu and 
everyone played nicely with each other.  All of this is on my Inspiron 
E1705 from Dell - best laptop I've ever seen.  Drivers were no issue - 
the broadcom wireless that comes with it ran even when just booting to 
the Live CD, didn't have to do any tweaking.  I also have the GeForce go 
7800 (or 7900, I forget) and drivers for it were no problem either...

If you're going to go Linux on a laptop, go ubuntu.  Smoothest 
installation by far.

-Jeff

Bob Netherton wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:11 -0500, Stuart Johnston wrote:
>
>   
>>> Do the traditional Linux installers and dual-boot setups work OK
>>> with Vista?  Can I just stuff a copy of SuSE 10 on a new laptop
>>> without worrying too much?  Grub and all that stuff "just works"?
>>>       
>> EmperorLinux sells some laptops with Vista/Linux dual-boot, if that 
>> helps at all.  It does suggest that it is at least possible.
>>
>> http://www.emperorlinux.com/search/?q=vista
>>     
>
> We have had a tough time making the Solaris GRUB and Vista play
> nicely - at least out of the box.  Apparently our friends from Redmond
> require their own bootloader and actually look for it and get upset
> if they don't see it.   Came in very late in the process too - like
> between RC3 and GA.  Gave a very lame excuse - maybe they have patched
> it back so it is no longer a problem.
>
> We found that we can use the Vista bootloader to execute the Solaris
> bootloader (like we used to in the old days, usually while walking
> uphill to and from school fighting off all the mastodons) - you know
> the drill: save the boot sector in a file, copy the file to the
> Windows partition, and update the bootloader config file to execute
> it as an alternate OS.
>
> See http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/entry/vista_and_solaris_express_dual
> for all the details.
>
>
> So yes it is possible.   How easy is left up to your own interpretation.
>
>
> Bob
>
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