Re: Flight from Twisted Vista (was Re: Ok. Heh, is there still...)

Antoine W. Campagna wrote:
> Brian Wolven <bcwolven@...> writes:
> 
>> So... I hooked 
>> the drive up to the laptop with Ubuntu installed, and used gparted to 
>> create the partitions, albeit in Fat32 (no NTFS support). 
> 
> Update to a recent version of GParted and you'll have full NTFS support. 
> GParted also comes as a bootable CD or USB device which I find really helpful 
> for these situations.
> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/

Excellent, Ill do that. Thanks.

> Also, while talking about partitions and stuff, I invite you all to try XOSL 
> which allows for easy and pretty multi-booting. I'm also the list manager for 
> XOSL.
> http://www2.arnes.si/~fkomar/xosl.org/

I didn't know I needed that, but I'll check that out too. I suppose the 
current bootloader interface *is* kind of grubby looking. ;)

Now all I need is for West to come out with that skin for my BIOS.


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