[SOLVED] Dual booting with Linux and Windows updates...

ardvark71 · 06-17-2015, 05:54 AM

Hi guys...

I recently installed Lubuntu 14.04 alongside my copy of Windows Vista on my desktop system and was wondering, from the article here, if there is any danger to continuing to install Windows security updates (that are not Service Packs?)

What has been your experience with this and your advice? Can they potentially mess up GRUB?

Thanks!

lazydog · 06-17-2015, 09:14 AM

I have been running Linux and Windows side-by-side on my laptop for years without issues. Updates have gone smoothly on both Linux and Windows.

ardvark71 · 06-17-2015, 11:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lazydog

I have been running Linux and Windows side-by-side on my laptop for years without issues. Updates have gone smoothly on both Linux and Windows.

Thank you for sharing that.

I would like to keep getting updates for Vista, to keep the vulnerability at a minimum, as much as possible.

Regards...

Doug G · 06-17-2015, 01:48 PM

I also have a dual boot Vista/Fedora laptop and have no problems with windows updates. The only annoyance is since Fedora is the default boot, and usually windows updates needs a reboot, I have to watch for the grub screen to boot back into Vista and complete the updates.

jefro · 06-17-2015, 03:19 PM

I've never had an issue on updates ever. I've messed it all up more than a few times by myself not reading mostly.

ardvark71 · 06-17-2015, 06:11 PM

Thanks guys for your your replies!

Regards...

John VV · 06-17-2015, 08:38 PM

if windows is NOT on the FIRST drive and the ms bootloader is NOT on the FIRST partition( MBR ) of the FIRST drive

you might have MS dot net framework problems
and YOU WILL have service pack problems

but vista is basically UNSUPPORTED ( security only fixes )
mainstream support ended in 2012 ( extended until 2017)

ardvark71 · 06-17-2015, 09:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by John VV

if windows is NOT on the FIRST drive and the ms bootloader is NOT on the FIRST partition( MBR ) of the FIRST drive

you might have MS dot net framework problems
and YOU WILL have service pack problems

but vista is basically UNSUPPORTED ( security only fixes )
mainstream support ended in 2012 ( extended until 2017)

Hi John...

Thanks for replying! I only have one hard drive in the system and I installed Vista on it first and shrunk the partition (to prepare it for Lubuntu) using Windows, not Lubuntu's installer, if that helps any.

The system in question is a Dell Inspiron 531S (made back in 2007,) with an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core processor, 2GB's of memory and an onboard Nvidia GeForce 6150SE nForce 430 graphics chip. Both OS's run pretty snappy on this system (With Vista, there's an "art" to keeping it running that way.

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Regards...

frankbell · 06-17-2015, 10:03 PM

I've been dual-booting Windows 7 and Linux (first Mint, currently Mageia) for several years. I've had no problem with updates on either system, other than that Windows updates are extremely annoying.

ardvark71 · 06-17-2015, 10:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by frankbell

I've had no problem with updates on either system, other than that Windows updates are extremely annoying.

So is Lubuntu's. I get a pop up almost every session asking me to update.

Thanks for letting me know your experiences. What I've found here in terms of that has been almost universal: There have problems with updating either OS (except in the cases John VV and Wikipedia have mentioned,) so I'm going to mark this thread as "SOLVED." Thank you again to each of you for responding and helping.

Regards...