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. On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 5:42 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > 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 > 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" wrote: >> >>> On 2015-01-12 03:54, kitepilot@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.... >>> >>> -- >>> Crow202 Blog: http://crow202.org/wordpress >>> There is no Darkness in Eternity >>> But only Light too dim for us to see. >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >>> >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen