Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

[Michael Havens]

How much RAM is enough? How much should you allocate to windows? How much
does Linux need? Mint17.1 is running currently using 2.3G with a terminal
open and Chrome with 2 tabs open.

:-)~MIKE~(-:

On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Mark Phillips <mark at phillipsmarketing.biz>
wrote:

> George,
>
> if your computer has enough horsepower and ram, I would suggest not
> setting up a dual boot system, but instead run Windows in a vm - vmplayer
> or virtualbox. I have used dual booting with Linux and Windows for a long
> time, but once I started running windows in a vm, I was much happier. Fewer
> headaches and easier to switch between the two operating systems. Also
> easier to share data between the two operating systems.
>
> Just my two cents.
>
> Mark
> On Jan 12, 2015 8:18 AM, "Matt Graham" <mhgraham at crow202.org> wrote:
>
>> On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepilot at kitepilot.com wrote:
>>
>>> Clone your Window$ with:
>>> mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1
>>> (cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -)
>>>
>>
>> I thought that NTFS had a number of things like non-Unixy file
>> permissions and alternate file streams that tar is not aware of and can't
>> replicate.  I also thought that Windows still has a few things that require
>> absolute sector positions, like the swapfile.  If it's possible to back up
>> a Windows-on-NTFS drive with mount and tar, that's great--but I thought it
>> was unlikely.
>>
>> I have usually used partimage to back up and restore Windows partitions.
>> That works.  The downside is that it only does a partition at a time....
>>
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