<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">that depends on workload. If you can afford it 4-6gb for general websurfing. 2-4 if you cannot. Its a matter of how well you want the system to perform, and what it will be doing.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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. <div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div></div><div><div class="h5">
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:07 PM, Mark Phillips <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mark@phillipsmarketing.biz" target="_blank">mark@phillipsmarketing.biz</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><p dir="ltr">George,</p><p dir="ltr">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.</p><p>Just my two cents.</p><p>Mark<br></p><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 12, 2015 8:18 AM, "Matt Graham" <<a href="mailto:mhgraham@crow202.org" target="_blank">mhgraham@crow202.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 2015-01-12 03:54, <a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a> wrote:<br>
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Clone your Window$ with:<br>
mount -tntfs-3g /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sdb1<br>
(cd /mnt/sda1;tar cf - .)|(cd /mnt/sdb1;tar xf -)<br>
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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.<br>
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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....<span><font color="#888888"><br>
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