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Dual Booting

Posted 12 September 2011 - 07:43 PM

Okay, I know I want to dual boot on my laptop, but I don't know what I want to dual boot with, yet.


I'm stuck between Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

When I do install my other partition, I'll be leaving enough space on my windows 7 partition to play some games (50gigs seems suitable).


Now, as a person with very little experience with Linux, which should I dual boot with, Linux Mint, or Ubuntu?

Why? Which one is better, or worse?

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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 12 September 2011 - 08:25 PM

Linux Mint is essentially Ubuntu. It's an even more stripped down version with multi-media software built in.

I would suggest you don't get so hung up on which Linux distribution to run. The distributions are just different releases of software.
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 02:16 AM

So I should just pick one and stop trying to figure out which is best?
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 02:17 AM

Exactly. Their main difference is going to be the package manager, & default desktop manager. But all of that is really changeable anyhow.
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:49 AM

Okay, thank you for your help.


Now I just need to compare the package managers and what not.
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 01:19 PM

I just read this article:

http://www.junauza.c...buntu-1104.html

And I'm going to dual boot with Linux Mint. Hopefully everything turns out nicely.


Does anyone know of an easy way to transfer my files over other than with a Flash drive? Or can I just access the files through my linux distro?
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 01:22 PM

For a long time now the Linux kernel has had NTFS read/write capabilities. You should have no problems accessing your Windows partition from your Linux boot.

Microsoft on the other hand, lacks the support to fetch files from a Linux partition, no matter which File System you go with.
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:15 PM

Well, I got Linux Mint installed on a USB stick and I can boot to it just fine, but for some reason I can't access my wireless connection ( my only way of getting on the internet). I have yet to figure out why I can't connect, but after some googling around I found that it may or may not be my BIOS.

Not sure what to do about that =/
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 13 September 2011 - 07:17 PM

If your wireless worked fine in Windows, then it isn't your BIOS.
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 14 September 2011 - 02:35 AM

Then how come none of my 3 wireless networks are showing up on Linux Mint?
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 14 September 2011 - 07:28 PM

yeah my wireless network aren't also showing up on mint... .. actually they are but i can't connect to them.. must drivers I guess ^^
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Re: Dual Booting

Posted 15 September 2011 - 05:38 AM

sudo ifconfig eth0 should show your lan ethernet.
sudo ifconfig eth1 should show your wireless.

If you get a wireless device, try sudo dhclient eth1. If that doesn't complete, you may have to connect to your broadcast id first. I'm not sure how to do this on the command line, but you should be able to single left click the wireless icon next to the clock to view all the available broadcast ids.

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yeah my wireless network aren't also showing up on mint... .. actually they are but i can't connect to them.. must drivers I guess ^^

Either they are showing up or they are not... & if they are showing up, your wireless device is working fine with Linux.
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