ot Online school

[Harold Wong]

I'm surprised that the online school is requiring you to run a specific OS.  With that said, if you really need Windows 7 for school and want to continue to use Linux as your main OS, I would recommend virtualizing it as that would be much simpler.

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From: plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Adam McCullough
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 11:03 AM
To: Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: ot Online school

Not to be fatalistic, but you're probably going to have a hard time finding a university that isn't very MS-happy.

Installing on an external hard drive is problematic at best. I'm pretty sure Windows protects against that. Licensing/piracy reasons.
On 8 August 2012 10:56, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
they want $305/credit hour. Is that the going rate for a University now a days? I think I'm going to go with a school that isn't so in bed with MS. UMN is  not in bed with em.
or else.... coulde I out it on an external HD?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com<mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
the pert i left out is if you install windows to the drive that has
Linux on it. even if you re-size the drives to make space it will
overwrite grub, and you will need to re-install and reconfigure it.
alternative install win7 in KVM or virtualbox.


On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:23 AM, Stephen <cryptworks at gmail.com<mailto:cryptworks at gmail.com>> wrote:
> well personally if you can just install to a new drive then you can
> have it pristine and configure grub...
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com<mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>> I need to put 7  back on my computer for school. How do you do it w/o
>> blowing everything else away (ie on another partition). I also need to
>> repartition. How big does it need to be for 7?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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