w2k/u7.10 dual-boot

[Teddy Mills]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compiz


chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
> Teddy Mills writes:
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>> ubuntu 7.1
>> apt-get install compiz compizconfig-settings-manager
>> I think compiz tries for functionality, and less concerned with
>> eye-candy.
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> Wat is it? A boot loader? I tried installing it:
> chris at bpc:~$ compiz
> Checking for Xgl: not present.
> No whitelisted driver found
> aborting and using fallback: /usr/bin/metacity
> Chris
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>> chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>> Lennart Sorensen writes:
>>>> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:10:03PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>>> This is uncharted territory so I don't know if you'll want to hazard
>>>>> a guess. What do you think the chances are that this problem would
>>>>> be rectified by doing the W2K/u7.10 dual-boot installation again,
>>>>> this time with W2K on ntfs? I just don't want to waste a couple of
>>>>> hours if there's no hope. I seem to recall there was some scenario
>>>>> in which the bootloader
>>>>> should be installed on the "first sector of the boot partition"
>>>>> instead of the MBR. Maybe that's for a dual-boot of W98 and NT or
>>>>> somesuch (and nothing to do with linux). Does that ring a bell? 
>>>>
>>>> I used to do that back when I used to reinstall windows every 3 months
>>>> (generally a good idea with win9x), and windows would overwrite the
>>>> MBR
>>>> every time, so having the boot loader on the first primary linux
>>>> partition meant I could get the system booting normally again
>>>> simply by
>>>> changing the active partition in fdisk from dos to be the linux
>>>> partition instead of the C: partition.  The MBR stayed as the generic
>>>> 'boot the partition with the bootable flag'.
>>>> Since I no longer reinstall windows (or install in the first place) on
>>>> my machines, I just install GRUB in the mbr and don't have any
>>>> partitions flagged bootable.  Windows does seem to insist on having a
>>>> bootable partition so marking C: bootable might be a good idea.
>>>
>>> Okay, I was able to install a u7.10/W2K dual-boot on another computer,
>>> So, now I know it can be done. Hard drive failure seems unlikely as I
>>> am able to install either OS on the drive, just not both at the same
>>> time. I'm wondering if it's the hard drive *model* that's a problem. I
>>> had the same problem on two identical hard drives - they are WD 160 GB
>>> drives. The other thing is that maybe my motherboard/BIOS doesn't like
>>> this dual-boot scenario.
>>> Would it be worth trying taking the hard drive, installing the
>>> dual-boot on the computer an which the dual-boot installation works,
>>> then remove the hard drive and re-install the hard drive (not the OS)
>>> on the computer I want it on? Obviously some drivers and things will
>>> change as the hard drive will now have a new computer home. Is that
>>> even worth trying?
>>> In the meantime I'll ask the tech at Krazy Krazy (where I bought the
>>> hard drives) if there is anything about these hard drives that he can
>>> think of that would cause a problem dual-booting.
>>> I have had other dual-boot (linux/Windows) installations on the
>>> computer I want this on, so I know the motherboard/BIOS doesn't reject
>>> dual-boots as a rule - but this one scenario or this one hard drive
>>> model is a problem...
>>> Chris
>>>>
>>>> Do NOT resize the windows partition while installing linux.  I
>>>> wouldn't
>>>> trust it to get that right.
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