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« Reply #15 on: November 11, 2007, 09:32:56 AM »

The whole drive wants blatting anyway so will see what they say Smiley
One thing that bugged me with dual-boot was needing to keep my old
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« Reply #16 on: November 11, 2007, 10:25:38 AM »

ahhh i see, and of course usb boots later than the grub menu..

hmm... i guess you could set it in the bios to boot the usb first/second?
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« Reply #17 on: November 11, 2007, 10:37:48 AM »

Will have to see hwat the geeks say Shocked
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« Reply #18 on: November 12, 2007, 15:24:47 PM »

Solved the USB keyboard issues thing by enabling legacy USB in the bios Lisa so hopefully dual-boot will work for me this time Shocked
Got move few things around on the pc then format the partition then can stick Gutsy on Shocked
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« Reply #19 on: November 12, 2007, 15:25:45 PM »

ooh good luck brains... Hopefully you'll find dualboot will satisfy all your needs. Grin
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« Reply #20 on: November 12, 2007, 15:26:39 PM »

oo hang on a mo... did you have to switch keyboards to enter Bios?
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« Reply #21 on: November 12, 2007, 15:27:48 PM »

Yep just too change the settings Wink
Now the USB one works Smiley
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« Reply #22 on: November 12, 2007, 15:29:35 PM »

thats gotta be annoying..

glad you figured it out.
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« Reply #23 on: November 12, 2007, 15:32:29 PM »

lol I didnt figure it out the Ubuntu geeks did lol
Apparently its more common an issue than I knew lol
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« Reply #24 on: November 12, 2007, 16:31:22 PM »

Lisa I done it - it is up and running as dual boot Cheesy
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« Reply #25 on: November 12, 2007, 16:32:25 PM »

w00t, i could see you were using ubuntu

that was nice and quick brains!!
did you do a complete format? or just a partition and install of ubuntu?
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« Reply #26 on: November 12, 2007, 16:46:48 PM »

Formatted the spare partition and installed as a dual boot
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« Reply #27 on: November 12, 2007, 17:54:34 PM »

cool!!..
glad it is all working for you.
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« Reply #28 on: November 12, 2007, 18:18:54 PM »

Gotta set up email stuff but thats easy enough Roll Eyes
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« Reply #29 on: November 12, 2007, 18:27:04 PM »

yup, it's all good when you get used to it.

How are you finding Gutsy?

My livecd's came today, so i'm gonna have a sort out and do a clean install at some point before crimbo.
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