| <Kiwistar> back again | |
| * Kiwistar wonders what is going on with all the sirens wailing outside | |
| <ajmitch> nice, about 28C in dunedin at the moment | |
| <ajmitch> starting to feel like summer | |
| <Kiwistar> It's been at around 28 odd up here in kaitaia since about 10am this morning | |
| <hads> Yeah, lovely day today. Hopefully it stays for the weekend. | |
| <Kiwistar> i hope so to, as it will give me a chance to get some gardening done | |
| * Kiwistar checks the temp gauge again and finds it's steedy on 28.5 degrees | |
| <Kiwistar> question. i have an laptop which has a single 80gb hard drive split into 2 drives of approx 35gb each. can i install linux on oneside and leave windows on the other side?? | |
| <hads> Answer. Yes. | |
| <Kiwistar> is there any potential conflicts that i should be aware of or will it just be a smooth install, and also hows can one choose between either op sys once both are installed?? | |
| <Kiwistar> just to be difficult | |
| <ajmitch> grub gives you the option at bootup | |
| <ajmitch> always install windows first | |
| <hads> Well, what's on the partitions at the moment. | |
| <ajmitch> & then linux | |
| <hads> And always backup first. | |
| <hads> (but you knew that). | |
| <ajmitch> I presume you could just wipe one partition & install linux on there | |
| <hads> As long as Windows isn't using it. | |
| <Kiwistar> I'd rather keep it the way it is and just install linux on d drive. I'm not the conferdent at removeing 1 partition and then installing, it's beyond my capacity at this stage | |
| <Kiwistar> when you say back up. you me a rescue disk???? | |
| <hads> Well you have to have somewhere to install Linux. | |
| <hads> Backup: Whatever you need to feel comfortable if something goes wrong and you destroy your current installation. | |
| <Kiwistar> I know that if I do something wrong it could wipe out all windows and everything I have on it. | |
| <Kiwistar> besides most of what is on d will be transfer to c and what I dont need will be wiped clean with the install | |
| <ajmitch> you have to do all of the moving of files before you start installing ubuntu | |
| <Kiwistar> i know other wise I lose a lot of valuable data | |
| * Kiwistar thinks of the nice cold beer at home that is not | |
| * Kiwistar wonders where he can upload his slightly modified wallpapers | |
| *** ChanServ sets mode: +v kirjava | |
| <Nameeater> edgy's handling of sessions is b0rk :( | |
| <hads> sessions? | |
| <Jasey> always been handled nicely for moi under edgy | |
| <Jasey> beddy | |
| <Nameeater> hads: where is saves what programs are open it and reopens them.. well when it wants to | |
| <hads> Oh, I never use that. Will be different for me on KDE anyway. | |
| <Nameeater> aye | |
| <Nameeater> might even work | |
| <hads> I think I tried it one and it did. | |
| <hads> s/one/once/ | |
| <kiwistar> morning all | |
| <ibeardslee> mutter morning mutter ... I so wanted to sleep in today. |