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Today's Topics:

1. Re: My now (non) dual booting laptop (John ffitch)
2. Re: My now (non) dual booting laptop (Nigel Sollars)
3. Re: My now (non) dual booting laptop (Peter Hemmings)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 14:15:29 +0100 (BST)
From: John ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk>
To: bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: Re: [bristol] My now (non) dual booting laptop
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Instead ofa dual booting machine have you considered VirtualBox? In my
opinion it is more flexible, reasonably efficient, and runs perfectly on
my OpenSuSE 13.1 machines. Much easier to install too.
==John ff





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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 2014 09:47:33 -0400
From: Nigel Sollars <nsollars@gmail.com>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] My now (non) dual booting laptop
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Hi,

Either of the last 2 above statements would work, I did the gparted thing
on a new dell desktop at the office for a 50 / 50 split of the hdd,
installed linux on the back half.

If you put the XP into a VM as stated ( never done XP myself ) then you
have a better state based backup.

I guess the only thing is to choose either or, personally the VM would be
my preference.

Regards


On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 9:15 AM, John ffitch <jpff@codemist.co.uk> wrote:

> Instead ofa dual booting machine have you considered VirtualBox? In my
> opinion it is more flexible, reasonably efficient, and runs perfectly on my
> OpenSuSE 13.1 machines. Much easier to install too.
> ==John ff
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2014 16:01:07 +0100
From: Peter Hemmings <peter@hemmings.eclipse.co.uk>
To: Bristol and Bath Linux User Group <bristol@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [bristol] My now (non) dual booting laptop
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On 07/06/14 14:15, John ffitch wrote:
> Instead ofa dual booting machine have you considered VirtualBox? In my
> opinion it is more flexible, reasonably efficient, and runs perfectly on
> my OpenSuSE 13.1 machines. Much easier to install too.
> ==John ff
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All good advice but he doe not want to try anything more by himself in
the next few weeks not even make a backup image, he just wants someone
to do it all for him on the 28th, but I might be wrong!!

Regards
--
Peter H



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