[Coco] Dual boot

[Bill Pierce]

Thanks Frank,
I will check out Mint. I've been wanting to play around with Linux as it has gotten much simpler to set up now. I abandoned it years ago when I got tired of finding drivers for every thing I plugged in, and here in my recording studio... that sometimes becomes a hourly task.

I've attempted several times to install "64 Studio" (Ubuntu or Debian) on my system as well as VMs. Every time it halts in the same place with a "sortware installation failure" I have downloaded every version, several times with same results. I checked the 64 Studio forums and no comments on installation problems, just positive comments on how well it works. I really wanted to try this system as was geared for professional recording studios and the first package of this nature I've seen. This is the very reason I run Windows. There was no "pro" audio software under Linux and though the Mac is far superior for recording... it's also far superior in price... by a GREAT amount for the same software I use in Windows. 64 Studio uses "Ardour" as it's main "multi-track" recording system and I read a lot of good things about it.

I'll download Mint later today and try it in a VM and see if it is what I need, which for now, is to just run Drivewire, later, maybe more.

thanx
Bill P

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-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Swygert <farna at att.net>
To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Mon, Oct 22, 2012 9:58 am
Subject: Re: [Coco] Dual boot


Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 08:24:42 -0500
From: Michael Graham<mkgraham at gmx.com>

Standard answer you'll get from almost everyone would be Ubuntu, but
I'll go ahead and say Linux Mint, this time.  It's Ubuntu-based, so
should have the same hardware support, and its desktop makes more sense
than Ubuntu's (with the Mint Menu and all).
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Mint is great! I'm mainly a user, though I do understand enough about the 
command line to know what's going on when people talk about it, and can follow 
directions to make mods using the command line. I'm NOT real comfortable with 
the command line in Linux and prefer to use graphic front ends to do everything. 
Yeah, more like Windows and Mac, only NOT! Mint is perfect for that. The Mint 
developers wanted the system to be easy and ready to go. they have a lot of 
stuff that isn't open source but is still free to use, like graphic card drivers 
and audio/video codecs. I've been using it for some time now, do all my DTP with 
Linux (using GIMP for photo manipulation, PageStream for page layout).

When making a dual boot just make sure Windows is loaded first. It's a real 
chore to get it to work right if Linux was loaded first! It's the way Windows 
misbehaves. It always assumes it's the only OS (or at least the main OS) and 
overwrites the Linux boot loader. This can be patched back up, but save yourself 
a lot of trouble and load Windows first. Then the Windows boot loader will let 
you choose which OS to boot.

  I think the only reason MS put that feature (a boot loader) in starting with 
XP is because XP and later versions work a bit differently than previous 
versions -- people wanted to be able to boot Win95/2000 or XP (or later) for 
compatibility purposes. XP and Vista are different enough to cause problems with 
some hardware or software also.

See http://neosmart.net/wiki/display/EBCD/Ubuntu. Don't worry about that little 
warning if you have Windows installed first, it only applies if Linux was 
installed first.

Or this one: http://newfyworld.hubpages.com/hub/How-To-Dual-Boot-Linux-Mint-13-Maya-and-Windows-7VistaXP


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