After finish a new installation of Ubuntu on a dual boot maybe you will found that you can't boot it up this, is because grub as not been add correctly on MBR [master boot record] some errors will be show but for easy troubleshooting the super grub CD is the best tool. Grab a copy here
The only thing you have to do is open the optical drive put the CD, and boot your PC from this CD and choose automatic and it will fix the boot errors for you look this page for more information on the subject, from here.
And that is it for now.
Thursday, 26 March 2009
Tuesday, 10 March 2009
Dual boot or Single boot?
Today i will talk about dual boot, single boot.
Dual boot is good for that people that have only um PC or laptop and no money to spend on new one. Like me this is the way to go for but of course is a process that can be a little stress full, you have to create partitions, this mean you have one laptop with 60GB of space only with Windows you first have to shrink the Windows space to get room for your new distro.
For Single boot this is a simple process like install, reinstall Windows like follow one screen instructions.
So one thing I have forgot is that you can do the same thing on dual boot pop up the CD on the drive loud a live section, on that you can follow the screen instructions, the way that this distros are made is so clever that can detect Windows, shrink create partitions install all Os and even install a boot louder, for you and me is a menu that you see like a dos, here you chose each of the 2 you want boot. This automatic process of the installation is something that i not have any experience with, because i came from Wubi install, i have to do everything manual.
Dual boot god if you not have money for a new PC, and access to Windows files, but slower boot time, you have the option to boot only one but dual boot is to chose one of the two.
Single boot faster boot a all PC for the new OS.
Dual boot is good for that people that have only um PC or laptop and no money to spend on new one. Like me this is the way to go for but of course is a process that can be a little stress full, you have to create partitions, this mean you have one laptop with 60GB of space only with Windows you first have to shrink the Windows space to get room for your new distro.
For Single boot this is a simple process like install, reinstall Windows like follow one screen instructions.
So one thing I have forgot is that you can do the same thing on dual boot pop up the CD on the drive loud a live section, on that you can follow the screen instructions, the way that this distros are made is so clever that can detect Windows, shrink create partitions install all Os and even install a boot louder, for you and me is a menu that you see like a dos, here you chose each of the 2 you want boot. This automatic process of the installation is something that i not have any experience with, because i came from Wubi install, i have to do everything manual.
Dual boot god if you not have money for a new PC, and access to Windows files, but slower boot time, you have the option to boot only one but dual boot is to chose one of the two.
Single boot faster boot a all PC for the new OS.
Monday, 9 February 2009
How to run a distro inside of windows - part 3
Hello again, the easy way to try any Distro inside of windows is using a virtual environment and for that you need 2 things, a virtual software and of course a Distro.
For the virtual environment you have VirtualBox or Virtual pc and for the Distro well i recommend Ubuntu.
But you can choose other here.
Well this process have limitations, if you still doubt about using a Linux alone like Windows, this is a good way for get familiar with a Linux Distro, but if you are not afraid of try new things, i recommend to use a live cd [ live cd is a Iso that you burn to a cd and you can try without change nothing on you pc] to get familiar with is environment and if you decide install it will hell on a single install or even on a dual boot.
For the virtual environment you have VirtualBox or Virtual pc and for the Distro well i recommend Ubuntu.
But you can choose other here.
Well this process have limitations, if you still doubt about using a Linux alone like Windows, this is a good way for get familiar with a Linux Distro, but if you are not afraid of try new things, i recommend to use a live cd [ live cd is a Iso that you burn to a cd and you can try without change nothing on you pc] to get familiar with is environment and if you decide install it will hell on a single install or even on a dual boot.
Thursday, 15 January 2009
How to run a distro inside of windows? part 2
Hi,but i learned that you can run any distro on wubi so if you download the wubi.exe and want use other distro you have to put the two on the same folder, run wubi and look on advanced settings.
From wiki.ubuntu.com:
From wiki.ubuntu.com:
How do I install multiple distros?
You can install your favorite distro from within Wubi (see the advanced settings) and then once you are in Ubuntu, you can install the other desktop environments as normal packages. Each desktop environment is available as a single package (e.g. kubuntu-desktop). You will not have to reboot to change the desktop, simply log-off and choose the desktop environment in the options at login.
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