Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 57, Issue 2

[Michael Cross]

I like Maurice's suggestion about VirtualBox. That's the way I'll do it.
Thanks


Michael Cross 

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   1. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
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   2. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
      (Maurice McCarthy)
   3. Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
      (Maurice McCarthy)


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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 16:16:30 +0100
From: Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
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I've inspected a laptop with Windows 7 installed from DVD using a grml
live CD. (http://grml.org is an administrator's distro with masses of
text based tools. As it supports speak-up, as early as possible in the
boot process, this makes it excellent for the visually impaired who want
to learn system administration. But the learning curve is steep!)

The laptop has two partitions. The boot partition is first. It begins at
sector 2048 and is 105MB in size and is 25% used. The remainder of the
120GB disk is C: drive. The bare installation used 6GB on this drive.

If you are not using Windows much then I'd install that first. It may
allow you to limit the amount of disk used or else or installing vinux
you can easily resize the 2nd partition to make space. 100 GB should be
plenty.

The partition system is inherited from MSDOS and linux used the same
partitioning so that dual booting could be achieved. Linux partitions
start at sector 63 so I can only guess that Windows is putting a lot of
boot code into sectors 1-2047. Sector 0 is the master boot record or mbr
and it contains the partition table.

Installing Vinux second will overwrite some this with grub2 unless you
install grub into the Vinux partition instead of the beginning of the
disc. They have to chain the windows boot loader to Vinux. Google for
EasyBCD for a windows solution to this.

Good Luck



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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 17:36:14 +0100
From: Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>
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http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu

The above link is a step by step installation of Ubuntu (& therefore
Vinux) next Windows 7 or Vista with the assistance of EasyBCD.

Maurice



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Date: Sun, 1 Aug 2010 18:28:34 +0100
From: Maurice McCarthy <manselton at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Ubuntu-accessibility Digest, Vol 56, Issue 6
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Instead of all the hassle of partitioning etc. (unless you just like all
that sort of stuff for its own sake) have you thought of installing
VirtualBox or qemu-kvm into Vinux and then running all your other
systems as virtual machines. You would still need a legitimate Windows 7
installation disk. In my opinion it is worth your time to do so. In fact
a lot of OS development is done on virtual machines these days.

Maurice



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