[X] My Assistant

Eh, reminded me too much of a Mac OS at the start but I got over it. Are you getting the Grub issue?

The partition's file system became corrupted. I formatted it to ext3, and I'm gonna re-install karmic on it. I figured out that installing the nvidia restricted driver 185 always locks up karmic. On the live cd, it just eats up ALOT of resources, triggers a crash report, and locks up the package manager. It also says something to the effect of about severe kernel instability, restart advised.

This post has been edited by Marvin666: Jan 11 2010, 13:34

Ah I see, my issue was a faulty security update to the Grub command line.

Windows XP SP3.

Planning on moving to Win7 sometime soon.

Windows 7

xp sp3

windows 7

Windows 7 Pro

Without a doubt, the best OS by Microsoft yet.

Running Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit at work now. I am impressed by it and like the new UAC options. I still smash it to max and make it require my password for everything, but its nice to be able to slide that down to the second top option when I plan to do some massive updating or installations.

Overall I still can't determine if it is better than Vista Ultimate yet, I need to use it for a few more weeks before I make that decision.

So, I installed xubuntu 9.10 on a separate hard drive and told it to use the Vista loader to dual boot, but it refuses to listen to me.

How do I "smack" it in just the right way that it will work and not try to sue me for custody of the children?

Is it an external hard drive? A lot of OS's don't like running from anything other than an internal one. How is the second drive partitioned, and what sort of hardware specs do you have?

Is it an external hard drive?

No.

How is the second drive partitioned

With Xubuntu on a primary ext4 partition and extended swap partition.

and what sort of hardware specs do you have?

When I tried out Ubuntu (and hated it) about a month back it dual-booted, so this is software related, not hardware related. Figured I'd give a Linux distro another shot, but this isn't turning out to be a decent experience, so...

This post has been edited by radixius: Jan 25 2010, 05:54

You might wanna give [cdimage.ubuntu.com] 9.04 a try. It's more stable, and seems to runs faster. I've never tried ubuntu, but I know kubuntu runs a lot slower than xubuntu.

I've never tried ubuntu, but I know kubuntu runs a lot slower than xubuntu.

What does this have to do with anything? Are you basically telling me to wait until someone who actually knows what they're talking about comes online?

If you don't want my help, I won't give you any. It's just what runs the best from my experience.

This post has been edited by Marvin666: Jan 25 2010, 08:12

That's not what I was asking about, anyway.

Why would you give me "advice" that was useless in this situation? I want to know how to dual-boot up the one I currently have with the Vista loader. I'm using Xubuntu because it seems more lightweight than the others and I was going to pop Chrome on there just to see how that whole thing works out in regard to speed, trying another flavor isn't really an option.

Your opinions are not required when I need answers.

EDIT: I'll probably just re-install Xubuntu and use the GRUB loader, see if that works...

This post has been edited by radixius: Jan 25 2010, 20:07

Oh, that why you were having troubles. Windows doesn't like being with non-windows stuff. I know if you install vista after linux, it wipes your grub.

I didn't use a GRUB before, the Windows loader has always worked when a dual-boot with a Linux distro was available.

You know, I never understood people and their urge to update their OS system. If the current one is doing fine by you, then why fuck around with anything else?

Also, I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium. It works well enough and I'm fairly capable of getting around the usual problems associated with this godawful OS. Three years running, I must be doing something right.

You know, I never understood people and their urge to update their OS system. If the current one is doing fine by you, then why fuck around with anything else?

More of an experiment, than anything. I want to determine if the video lag I've been getting on my Firefox in Vista is a hardware related issue or a software related issue. It doesn't seem to be the browser... Chrome did the same thing, so I'm assuming the bloat of Vista on my low amount of RAM is doing it.

But I won't know until I can test the theory.

[. . .] I'm using Windows Vista Home Premium. It works well enough and I'm fairly capable of getting around the usual problems associated with this godawful OS. Three years running, I must be doing something right.

Vista isn't as bad as people made it seem. Then again, most people are retarded, and when one of them forms an opinion, many others will associate with it regardless of their experiences.