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    Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10

    My PC currently has Windows 7 installed. I would like to start using Ubuntu 11.10 now and then. I'v been doing some research on dual booting both OS's.

    I want to install both OS's on the same hard drive. As I said before, I already have Windows 7 installed. Is it as easy as creating a boot disc of Ubuntu 11.10 and installing it while in windows? Then when the PC is booting, I will have the option to select what OS to use?? Or do I need a program called VirtualBox in order to have both OS's run on the same hard drive? So do I install and setup VirtualBox while in Windows and then install Ubuntu 11.10 right after that?

    Thanks in advance for your replies!!
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    Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10

    You sir need WUBI. Install it from within Windows and it'll do the rest for you, including setting up your boot menu. If you no longer want to run Ubuntu you then just uninstall it in the same way you would any other program.

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    Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10

    Great. Much appreciated Splash.
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    Quote Originally Posted by adamsonm View Post
    My PC currently has Windows 7 installed. I would like to start using Ubuntu 11.10 now and then. I'v been doing some research on dual booting both OS's.

    I want to install both OS's on the same hard drive. As I said before, I already have Windows 7 installed. Is it as easy as creating a boot disc of Ubuntu 11.10 and installing it while in windows? Then when the PC is booting, I will have the option to select what OS to use?? Or do I need a program called VirtualBox in order to have both OS's run on the same hard drive? So do I install and setup VirtualBox while in Windows and then install Ubuntu 11.10 right after that?

    Thanks in advance for your replies!!
    You can do this but you are creating potential problems for yourself because Microsoft is hostile to sharing a computer with anybody else. Indeed Microsoft is currently requesting, in order to "prevent boot hacks", that OEM computers for the next version of Windows must include a verification feature that might prevent Linux from loading. And of course you void support from Microsoft or your OEM for your Windows system if you dual boot it. More importantly you are stuck doing either Windows or Linux at any given moment, with no way for the two systems to communicate. In my opinion it is safer and more productive to install a free virtual machine product such as VirtualBox or VMWare and run one of the systems as a guest. The safest configuration, since it does not void the warranty, is to leave your original OEM installation of Windows alone and install Linux as a guest, although I am personally running Windows (4 different releases!) as the guest of Linux because my primary use of the system is programming. Your Linux system will have access to the disks and printer on the host Windows system because it supports SMB directly, and the Windows system can have access to the Linux disks if you run a Samba server. You can even cut and paste between applications in the different operating systems!

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    Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10

    Quote Originally Posted by jcobban View Post
    You can do this but you are creating potential problems for yourself because Microsoft is hostile to sharing a computer with anybody else. Indeed Microsoft is currently requesting, in order to "prevent boot hacks", that OEM computers for the next version of Windows must include a verification feature that might prevent Linux from loading. And of course you void support from Microsoft or your OEM for your Windows system if you dual boot it. More importantly you are stuck doing either Windows or Linux at any given moment, with no way for the two systems to communicate. In my opinion it is safer and more productive to install a free virtual machine product such as VirtualBox or VMWare and run one of the systems as a guest. The safest configuration, since it does not void the warranty, is to leave your original OEM installation of Windows alone and install Linux as a guest, although I am personally running Windows (4 different releases!) as the guest of Linux because my primary use of the system is programming. Your Linux system will have access to the disks and printer on the host Windows system because it supports SMB directly, and the Windows system can have access to the Linux disks if you run a Samba server. You can even cut and paste between applications in the different operating systems!
    Crap for games though.

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    Re: Dual Boot Windows 7 and Ubuntu 11.10

    Quote Originally Posted by directhex View Post
    Crap for games though.
    True. You can only run games, or any other application that fully exploits the graphics chip, on the host OS, because the virtualizer emulates a generic video card to the guest.

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