~Toughbooktalk~

I have read how many of you are dual or even multi-booting now. I love my dual booting CF-30 with Ubuntu x64 and Win7 Ultimate x64. It is like two Toughbooks for the price of one and twice the challenge/aggravation/fun of getting everything working on both OSs! That is great, but what is your Dual Booting Strategy?

My new personal Internet policy is that Microsoft never touches the Internet unless it has to, for updates and such. The rest of the time I use Ubuntu to browse, email and such.

But my strategy is to have my 250 GB hard disk partitioned into three parts. Roughly 50GB for Win7 and 50GB for Ubuntu. The rest is data storage and is accessed as (My Documents <with Libraries>) from Windows and via the File Cabinet via Ubuntu. By this I mean that Music, Videos, Documents, Pictures, and etc are all equally accessible from the same folders by both of the OS's. Inside MY DOCUMENTS/FILE CABINET partition I have a folder for data particular to Widows and the same for Linux, but everything else can be loaded and modified by all OS's.

How do you do it?

At home I dual boot on multiple drives, so space is not an issue. But on a laptop I very rarely run Windows, so when I have to I run it inside a VM.

I didn't use a dedicated partition when I was running 10.10 Ubuntu a lot. I just used the install inside of windows method. You can later un-install it like a program, but the grub menu will still be there on boot up. I think that is still a option also.

ADOR wrote:I didn't use a dedicated partition when I was running 10.10 Ubuntu a lot. I just used the install inside of windows method. You can later un-install it like a program, but the grub menu will still be there on boot up. I think that is still a option also.

Kind of like the inverse of what I do. Sort of.

You aren't running linux on a virtual machine when you do it that way. It installs a grub menu automatically for you when you do it that way and you choose windows or linux at boot up. Can't run the both at the same time. It makes a folder inside of your windows program folder to store all of your info you used in linux if I remember right.

I have uninstalled once on a xp install, grub was left, but everything else was gone and windows still worked fine. I think it's was just a way to try to get more people to try it.

At one time or another I ran this Ubuntu standalone environment under Windows XP. I think it was layered over cygwin. Never used it much, though.

Well I also enjoy the advantage of "OS Redundancy," if one OS fails, I can still access all of my data with the other OS...

Azrial wrote:Well I also enjoy the advantage of "OS Redundancy," if one OS fails, I can still access all of my data with the other OS...

I thought that is what external hard drive cases were for, lol.

ADOR wrote:

Azrial wrote:Well I also enjoy the advantage of "OS Redundancy," if one OS fails, I can still access all of my data with the other OS...

I thought that is what external hard drive cases were for, lol.

Yeah, but if it does not go inside that rugged magnesium case, how rugged is it...

How rugged is anything? To me, dual boot(ing) is to try out other things. Whatever you are most happy with, use it. And back it up to some secure method on a regular basis. I just erased my rant, Best regards, Cleve
ps, do you really still have the mk5cf29? Great little computer