Windows 7 Install.
When you reboot with the Windows 7install disk in the drive it will auto boot for most. If not watch your BIOS splash screen to see what button is programmed to allow you to choose what drive to load from. Hit it and select your CD\DVD drive. The Windows 7 install is pretty straight forward the only two things you will change are the way you install and the partition you want it to install to. On this window you want to choose Custom Install.
After selecting that you will get a window that asks you were you want to install this partition to. You will see the three partitions that you created; one unallocated, one unformatted, and the NTFS one. You will choose the one labeled Disk 0 Unallocated Space and or the first one from the top. Then let windows install and finish up.
It will ask you to create a User Name, Password, and Machine Name these are all personal choice but I myself used a Username and Password that I could keep the same for both Linux and Windows. You don’t have to do this. Windows will go through the profile setup process asking you date, time, region. Then it will restart and you will be able to log in.
At this time you can either update your system and or install any applications you want to or continue on to the next part of the install which is the Ubuntu installation. I took the opportunity to update at this time just to make sure I had all the most recent drivers and recent patches. Windows 7 is good for finding generic drivers that will get most if not everything working. Remember to update you will need an Internet connection if you don’t have a drivers disk for you machine that has Vista or better drivers. Once your are finished with that you want to restart you machine again and boot to your Ubuntu install disk.
what is d role of scheduling in window 7 operating system.
Sorry, typo above, i meant DRIVERS… not drives.
I will inquire about AMD/ATI drivers with our AMD contact. I have never had any issues and I know several people capable of gaming with their AMD/ATI combo rigs under Ubuntu and other linux distro’s. Any resources you have found handy on the web for these issues?
I’ve dual booted many times, w/ all the Windows flavors since Win 2k, and quite a few Linux distros, and FreeBSD. But, and I add this cause no one addresses the issue until after the Linux/ Unix install… If you’re using an ATI card you are basically going to be stuck using very low class drives because AMD/ATI are not playing nice with the other OSes. I wish it wasn’t so, but it is.