Windows 7 dual boot with Linux

[Stephen Partington]

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 <bmike1 at gmail.com> 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 <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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