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12-26-2007, 05:59 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Dec 2007
Posts: 1
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Dualbooting with Vista
Does simplyMepis support dualbooting with Vista home premium? I've had a lot of bad luck with OpenSuse doing this or not as the case is. I am a total newbee so a very simple answer on how to do it would be great/
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12-26-2007, 06:16 AM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Jul 2006
Location: Crystal Beach, Texas
Distribution: Suse for mail +
Posts: 5,100
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Hi and welcome to LQ, to answer your question the best I can. If you use default installation I would think Suse would be the easiest to install but you can give Simply Mepis a try without installing. It is a live cd, just insert the cd and then restart your computer and check it out. If you do not like Simply Mepis give one of the other live cds a try, that is the beauty of linux.
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12-26-2007, 08:47 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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clearly not an intro. moved to Linux - Newbie. please check where you are posting next time.
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12-26-2007, 09:12 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne UK
Distribution: Any free distro.
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Mepis has Grub that can boot any number of MS systems. So is the Grub in Suse.
Vista boot loader (BCDedit) can boot 150+ Linux if you've got them.
You can mix the two together too.
Last edited by saikee; 12-26-2007 at 09:16 AM.
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12-26-2007, 05:47 PM
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Registered: Dec 2007
Distribution: Fedora, Oracle Linux & Centos
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This is what I used to run Ubuntu Linux(or any other distro) in a dual boot with Winblows Vistasuck. The guides are very easy to follow and have screen shots. Here is the only link you need http://apcmag.com/node/5162/
Last edited by vwtech; 12-26-2007 at 05:48 PM.
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12-27-2007, 12:06 AM
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: Chilliwack,BC.Canada
Distribution: Slackware64 -current
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SimplyMEPIS itself doesn't need to support dual-boot with vista, the bootloader that it uses does, but grub can boot just about any operating system
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