On 19 October 2013 03:50, Oliver Ruebenacker <curoli(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have a Lenovo T430 that had Windows 7 Pro pre-installed, but I wiped out
Windows and installed Fedora 19 instead (actually, I first installed Ubuntu
and then Fedora).
Good move.
Now I want to turn it into a dual-boot machine with Fedora and
Windows
based on the license for the pre-installed Windows.
I would suggest you have a virtual machine running inside a host. The
main reason
is that by doing this you get both system running in a stable way, and you have
access to both systems all the time.
I see on the web some recommendations to first install Windows, and
some
say you can install first Linux and then Windows, but it may not work for
(some?) pre-installed versions.
I would suggest go for Windows first because boot Windows is much more confusing
than boot Linux. You can easily add a boot point in Windows using
software and load
Grub and then load Linux.
So, now I'm wondering whether I should first wipe out Fedora and
then put
first Windows and second Fedora, or whether I should try to keep Fedora and
add Windows next to it?
If you still rely on Windows to work and study, and you are just
having some fun with
Fedora, go for a virtual machine. You will get enough performance and
experience by
using the virtual machine.
My file systems currently look like this:
[oruebenacker@localhost ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/fedora-root 51475068 8239400 40597844 17% /
devtmpfs 3929460 0 3929460 0% /dev
tmpfs 3936376 96 3936280 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 3936376 900 3935476 1% /run
tmpfs 3936376 0 3936376 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 3936376 52 3936324 1% /tmp
/dev/sda1 487652 120305 337651 27% /boot
/dev/mapper/fedora-home 420590200 21603936 377598388 6% /home
Looks it's a Fedora only system with LVM installed, so either wipe Fedora out or
install Windows in a virtual machine.
I am using ArchLinux as my host machine and Windows & Fedora as Guest.
Everything run in VirtualBox and all work fine.
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Regards,
Xinyun Zhou
__Simplicity is the peak of civilisation__