Brian Boyko
[H] Consumer Editor
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Some comments sent to my email:
Yep - using VirtualBox and while I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to move files from host to VM and vice versa, and how to connect through the VM to the Internet, I'm already using it for Photoshop.
Dominik:
I'll make a note of this in the forums (and likely download Rosegarden & Ardor to try!)
Thanks for pointing them out to me! One less thing that I have to go into the VM for!
I'll take a look.
Hey - yeah, I've run into it a couple of times, but I usually just plug in the LiveCD and use that to repair GRUB on the MBR. Ubuntu has no trouble -reading- NTFS out of the box - it's writing that presents the problem. Luckily NTFS-3G is out of beta and that what I plan to use.
Greg Spurr said:Might I make a suggestion? Before you re-partition, as you mention at the end of your article, maybe you might want to give virtualization a try? I'd certainly be interested in seeing how that works out for you
I've just recently started playing around with VirtualBox (http://www.virtualbox.org/), and I am impressed with it so far. There is an article on installing it with Ubuntu that might be worth checking out: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/create-and-manage-virtual-machines-using-virtualbox.html
For my part, I installed the libs recommended on the download page at the virtualbox.org site, as well as my current kernel source package "just in case." I then installed the .deb file, modified my group membership and it "just worked."
I don't game on my PC anymore - I've moved that to the consoles. However, I'd be interested to see if this would work for you or not (probably not - give the horsepower needs for gaming). It might be a viable solution for Photoshop at least. Definitely more convenient than dual-booting.
thanks for the article,
-GS
P.S. Two notes I have a different HP printer than you (sorry, forget the model) and it has worked flawlessly after a pain-free installation. Also, I'm not sure what problem you were running into, but I've had three different Mozilla-based browsers running at once. You might want to experiment more here
Yep - using VirtualBox and while I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to move files from host to VM and vice versa, and how to connect through the VM to the Internet, I'm already using it for Photoshop.
Hi Brian,
first i need to applaud to you for that article. Nice work.
But there is one thing in your article that bugged me tho.
You say there that there is no loop based audio editor for Linux.
Have you checked out Rosegarden (www.rosegardenmusic.com) or Muse
(www.muse-sequencer.org) ? These are both available in the ubuntu
repository and i think they qualify for the loop based audio editor
category. And there's Ardour as well (www.ardour.org).
Another thing (thats why i'm writing this as email) is that to comment
your article, i'd have to register in your forums, which (i'm sorry *g*,
but) i can't be bothered to do. Maybe you should think about allowing
anonymous comments in the article discussion parts of the forum.
kind regards,
Dominik del Bondio
Dominik:
I'll make a note of this in the forums (and likely download Rosegarden & Ardor to try!)
Thanks for pointing them out to me! One less thing that I have to go into the VM for!
I'll take a look.
Dustin Rowland said:I don't know if you've run into this yet, but when you go to install XP
back you will most likely have a problem getting back into Ubuntu.
Windows installs completely re-write the MBR, so previous linux OS's are
inaccessible. The only good way I have gotten dual-boot systems to work
is install Windows, then linux. GRUB has always added Windows into it's
list for me. Also, I don't know if you've tried it, but Ubuntu Dapper
Drake and Edgy Eft (I don't remember having success in Hoary Hedgehog)
are able to write back to NTFS without error.
Just wanted to put in two cents. Again, excellent article. I hope
people read it and experiment for themselves.
Hey - yeah, I've run into it a couple of times, but I usually just plug in the LiveCD and use that to repair GRUB on the MBR. Ubuntu has no trouble -reading- NTFS out of the box - it's writing that presents the problem. Luckily NTFS-3G is out of beta and that what I plan to use.