Multi-booting, installing more than one operating system on a computer’s hard drive(s), has become very popular over the years, fueled, of course, by the popularity of Linux as an alternate system for desktop and servers. Dual-booting, installing two operating systems on a computer is a subset of that, and in this article, basic guidelines to [...]
Dual-booting between a GNU/Linux distribution and Windows on a computer with one or more hard disks is a common practice for those who use both operating systems. It is a somewhat hassle-free approach to keeping a foot in both OS worlds. If you are new to Linux Mint and want to attempt dual-booting between Linux [...]
Alternate titles: How to dual-boot Ubuntu 12.10 Desktop and Windows 8 Pro; how to dual-boot Windows 8 and Ubuntu 12.10; dual-booting Windows 8 and Ubuntu on a single hard drive (HDD).
So, I got a friend to lend me his copy of Windows 8 Pro.
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Ubuntu Linux, just like most Linux distributions, will happily co-exist on a hard disk with just about any version of Windows. This is a concept known as dual-booting. Essentially, when you power up your PC you will be presented with a menu which provides the option to boot either Ubuntu Linux or Windows.
I am not the best at dual booting as seen in my previous thread, I currently full reformatted to F11 Leonidas, once past some problems I love it, but I still need an windows enviroment to test my C++ projects that use windows api calls and functions, I have windows 7 but I havent the slightly idea of how to dual boot fedora 11 and windows 7 properly.
I am fairly new to Linux and have recently installed OpenSUSE 11.2 x64 KDE. It is a pretty nice OS, all things considered. I am still learning.
Hello, my name is michael. I am 13 years old and was previously dual booting Ubuntu version 11 and Windows XP. But, when I uprgraded to windows 7. I decided I would venture back into the linux realm. As of yesterday, I am dual booting Fedora 17 and Windows 7. With a lot of partitioning and hard work, I feel it is coming together. I am using the "deafult" Desktop.
This is the second article on dual-booting Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a computer with one hard disk. The first, how to dual-boot Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7, showed how to accomplish the task with GRUB 2, the boot loader used by Ubuntu, installed on the Master Boot Record (MBR) of the hard disk.
Dual-booting refers to the concept of installing two operating systems on the same computer, and having the option to choose which one to boot into when the computer is rebooting. Dual-booting is actually a special case of multi-booting, or installing more than one operating on a computer. This is a very common practice in the [...]
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