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• Comment 1 written by Chris on 24 April 2007, at 4:45 PM

  

  Welcome to the world of Ubuntu! I would suggest installing Ubuntu and then running Windows Virtual with VMWare. It works great. If you need any help, just send me an email.

• Comment 2 written by Raymond Camden on 24 April 2007, at 4:54 PM

  

  That was my goal. I was going to keep a 'real' Windows on a small partition for the last PC game I'm playing.
  
  At this point I'm going to see if I can just get Ubuntu working and then migrate my Windows app. Believe it or not I can still see my files from Ubuntu (from the CD I'm using).

• Comment 3 written by Dan Sorensen on 24 April 2007, at 5:08 PM

  

  Unfortunately, most vendors don't include install media unless you specifically request it. Now they usually have a hidden 'recovery partition'. I usually request install media AND I pick up a fresh hard drive for any non-default OSes. I would prefer to use the factory hard drive, but it's just too hard to mess with Vendor installs and Microsoft anymore. :-P
  
  Good luck, I hope the rest goes well.

• Comment 4 written by Nathan Strutz on 24 April 2007, at 5:28 PM

  

  I knew I should have blogged this yesterday :)
  http://www.dopefly.com/techblog/entry.cfm?entry=18...
  
  BTW, what's that "last" PC game you're playing?

• Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 24 April 2007, at 5:33 PM

  

  Nice. GParted is on the Ubuntu CD I have. I didn't try to resize there as I didn't know it was an option. Does it keep the data safe?

• Comment 6 written by Nathan Strutz on 24 April 2007, at 5:42 PM

  

  I can't validate the data dependency of GParted's data handling, but i will say it did a great job for me. I copied and pasted partitions, resized set boot flags, etc., and had absolutely no issues on any of the 3 HDDs I was playing with over the weekend.

• Comment 7 written by Scott P on 24 April 2007, at 6:18 PM

  

  Sounds like you just blew away your boot loader for XP. If you are careful, you can get it all back without reinstalling.
  
  Might give this a try:
  GParted and click on your Windows partition.
  In the Partition menu, click manage flags.
  Make sure the boot check box is set.
  
  
  Also - what does your menu.lst file in /boot/grub look like?

• Comment 8 written by Justin Lewis on 25 April 2007, at 1:30 AM

  

  Ubuntu had it's own snappy disk partitioner and even created a selection for windows in the grub bootloader. I tried to do the partition with a partition magic and it ended in tears....

• Comment 9 written by Raymond Camden on 25 April 2007, at 8:34 AM

  

  UGH. I got my Windows XP Media CDs (from a friend) and I even get a blue screen during install.

• Comment 10 written by Raymond Camden on 25 April 2007, at 8:42 AM

  

  Scott, the partition does have boot set. I have no idea what /boot/grub is. It doesn't seem to be a file.

• Comment 11 written by Ken Dunnington on 25 April 2007, at 8:49 AM

  

  Why not just get an external Firewire drive and run Ubuntu and Windows under Paralells on the Mac? ;) Ubuntu is a great distro, I hope you get this problem fixed.

• Comment 12 written by sethron on 25 April 2007, at 11:14 AM

  

  I would suggest getting the VMWare player and the Ubuntu appliance image here http://www.vmware.com/vmtn/appliances/directory/69... for the Windows PC.
  
  I have an old IBM ThinkPad T22 that I have installed Ubuntu 5.10 and have upgraded to 6.10 and also added Kubuntu and Xubuntu to it. VMWare server is installed and I have an instance of Windows XP Pro SP2 running inside of it, but I would not recommend that for games.
  
  The VMWare player and the appliance running within Windows XP is very reliable. Your mileage may vary, with sound and video within the VM, but this is exactly what VMWare was meant to do.

• Comment 13 written by Raymond Camden on 25 April 2007, at 1:12 PM

  

  Just thought I'd add a note. I'm now running Ubuntu. Scott P gave me a LOT of help with my display, but I seem stuck at 1600x instead of 1920x. What is odd is that when I ran from the CD I was able to get the higher rez. Anyone else out there using Dell's 24 inch widescreen?

• Comment 14 written by sethron on 25 April 2007, at 1:39 PM

  

  You may have to double check your settings in the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. Also, try the command posted here:
  http://www.robgonda.com/blog/index.cfm/2006/10/19/....

• Comment 15 written by Raymond Camden on 25 April 2007, at 2:30 PM

  

  No go. I've tried the reconfigure a few times now. It just won't go over 1600x. The more I use it now the more I want to get it fixed. I may blog it just to draw in some traffic.

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