Want to have both Windows 7 and Ubuntu on my pc, I have two drives installed.

[Ryan Zinter]

I was wondering if I could put Ubuntu on the second drive I have installed and then, when booting, would it give me a choice of which os to use? Any info on this would be great.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Far fewer issues if you were to install VMWare or VirtualBox and run Ubuntu in a virtual environment.

 

[Ryan Zinter]

Thanks, I'll look into that.

 

[ddpruitt]

Ubuntu has a dual boot option when installing that's fairly painless. You can try the VM route but IMHO for a lot of things a VM just won't cut it.

 

[ex_bubblehead]

Ubuntu has a dual boot option when installing that's fairly painless. You can try the VM route but IMHO for a lot of things a VM just won't cut it.

What specifically doesn't work? I've been running Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, as VirtualBox guests for many years without a single issue. They're even set up on a share so that they can be run on either a Windows or Gentoo host.

 

[Ryan Zinter]

Ubuntu has a dual boot option when installing that's fairly painless. You can try the VM route but IMHO for a lot of things a VM just won't cut it.

So just install and follow prompts?

 

[ddpruitt]

Ubuntu has a dual boot option when installing that's fairly painless. You can try the VM route but IMHO for a lot of things a VM just won't cut it.

So just install and follow prompts?

Basically. I would argue that Ubuntu's (or any decent Linux distro in general) has a much more intuitive installer than Windows nowdays.

 

[ddpruitt]

Ubuntu has a dual boot option when installing that's fairly painless. You can try the VM route but IMHO for a lot of things a VM just won't cut it.

What specifically doesn't work? I've been running Linux distributions, including Ubuntu, as VirtualBox guests for many years without a single issue. They're even set up on a share so that they can be run on either a Windows or Gentoo host.

If your doing simple stuff like internet browsing, or office type stuff they're fine. But try hardware interfacing tends to be a pain and causes problems with USB and the like. And forget about performance, compiling Android takes me 2 hours native, 3.5 in a VM. VMs work fine for some things, but there are somethings native is just world's better at.