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« on: July 11, 2007, 16:42:13 PM »
I'm going to dualboot with XP.
The kids need thier games to work, and i wouldn't mind my favourite working either.
if the virtual box situation was a bit more advanced i could continue down that route. But currently it doesn't have 3d graphics abilities and i need that part.

So i'm in the process of cleaning out some dead wood so i can partition a small bit for XP.
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2007, 16:45:01 PM »
  Sucks a bit, doesn't it?  Linux is such a good OS, and way ahead of Windows, but hardly anything commercial works with it.
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2007, 17:49:29 PM »
it does suck.
it really needs backing by major companies...

I'll still use linux everyday, i love it and can do everything i want to some degree (besides this one game)
plus I'm hoping beyond hope the virtual box team can fix their possible solution with openGL
But i do loathe to have to use windows for anything. Their kind of monopoly isn't healthy
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2007, 19:04:15 PM »
hell I tried dualboot you know..

windows crashed on my drivers Sad
so my vid card is broke.. half of it is molten I guess

don't need windows for anything else than games though..
well I don't even need it for games since I could get cedega for that but I would need a working vid card
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2007, 21:04:03 PM »
If only it could have run some of my specialty programs I would have kept my old setup.....
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« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2007, 12:50:33 PM »
making back ups now..

shall we take bets on me breaking it Cheesy
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« Reply #6 on: July 18, 2007, 07:28:16 AM »
wish me luck, about to begin partitioning...
i reckon 15 gig will be plenty for a cut down XP just for games Cheesy
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« Reply #7 on: July 18, 2007, 07:53:11 AM »
Good luck with that... Shocked
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« Reply #8 on: July 18, 2007, 07:53:30 AM »
dammit... my over sensitive DVD drive won't let me boot the gparted cd.... and i can't boot from USB as mobo is ancient.

May have to wipe and completely reinstall everything Cry
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« Reply #9 on: July 18, 2007, 07:55:51 AM »
Holy shit! Just what you need... Undecided
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« Reply #10 on: July 18, 2007, 07:58:42 AM »
not sure i'll do it....
major job Sad
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« Reply #11 on: July 18, 2007, 08:04:57 AM »
I reckon. My last one took a couple of months to get back to semi-normal. Pain in the arse... Sad
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« Reply #12 on: July 18, 2007, 08:39:17 AM »
Quote from: Mojo on July 18, 2007, 08:04:57 AM
I reckon. My last one took a couple of months to get back to semi-normal. Pain in the arse... Sad

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« Reply #13 on: July 18, 2007, 08:45:07 AM »
Lisa if ya got a partition set-up ready for Linux you could try the "Wubi" route think
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« Reply #14 on: July 18, 2007, 08:48:36 AM »
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Lisa if ya got a partition set-up ready for Linux you could try the "Wubi" route think
i only have the 1 drive which i didn't partition when i installed linux as i saw no need... i need to split that up.
I could have used gparted to do that without loosing any Linux stuff, but as my DVD drive is very touchy about burnt dvd's, i may have to do a complete wipe and restart. And to be honest i don't think it is worth it.
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