Windows 8.1 & Ubuntu 13.10 Now Available

[Benedict_Arnold]

Did you get Windows 8.1 and Ubunti to sit on the same PC?

I tried it this afternoon onto completely different hard disks and Windows is the only thing that would boot.:help:

 

[cheeseboy]

which did you install first? I think you'll need to do windows, then unbuntu...

Depending on what you wanted to do with ubuntu, the other option is to run it as a virtual machine in windows...

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Windows 8.1 clean install onto a new SSD first, then Ubuntu much later.

I think the problem is that the iinstallation software installed Ubuntu onto an external hard disk connected via USB, not an internal one, so this morning I'm going to try disconnecting all the external / removable drives and forcing the installation onto an internal hard disk I had installed for Ubuntu or failing that onto the SSD alongside Windows (DANGER WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!!)

 

[professorhat]

Download VMware Player and install it in this - then you don't have to reboot to get into the other OS.

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Not sure about that.

I used to have a "SunPC" card in my Sun Sparcstation. It had a dedicated CPU for running PC apps. It would just about run Windows 3.1, at 286 speed, on a machine that was 10 times faster than the then state-of -the-art Pentium II CPU based PCs. I'm not sure running Windows 8.1 in a LINUX window or LINUX in a Windows, erm, window, would be any more successful. After all, the main reason for running the UNIX derivative is out and out speed.

Thanks for the suggestion though.

Today I got Ubuntu to load onto the PC by unplugging all the other hard disks first. But afterwards it wouldn't boot.

Back to Square One.

 

[manicm]

Don't know if anyone's noticed, but IE11 in Windows 8.1 is actually rubbish - broken compatability with many websites, and seems slower than IE10 as well. IE10 was brilliant.

 

[abacus]

If you load Ubuntu from within Windows 8 it will dual boot without problems, personally I find Ubuntu has gone downhill fast since about V10 and is now just a piece of bloat ware and not worth bothering with. (Most Ubuntu users (And those wishing to try Linux) have gone over to Mint as it is far superior)

Hope this helps

Bill

 

[abacus]

Don't know if anyone's noticed, but IE11 in Windows 8.1 is actually rubbish - broken compatability with many websites, and seems slower than IE10 as well. IE10 was brilliant.

IE 11 features advanced security measures (Been using it on Windows 7 for some time) which means if the website doesn’t play ball it can cause problems, however if you run theses websites in compatibility mode they should run without problems. As to speed I find it leaves IE 8, 9 & 10 for dead in all departments. (For some strange reason it is a bit more Clunky in Windows 8 though)

Bill

 

[professorhat]

Not sure about that.

I used to have a "SunPC" card in my Sun Sparcstation. It had a dedicated CPU for running PC apps. It would just about run Windows 3.1, at 286 speed, on a machine that was 10 times faster than the then state-of -the-art Pentium II CPU based PCs. I'm not sure running Windows 8.1 in a LINUX window or LINUX in a Windows, erm, window, would be any more successful. After all, the main reason for running the UNIX derivative is out and out speed.

I use VMware products every day for home purposes and I use them extensively at work (as do most companies who use virtualisation) - both of my home machines, one a Lenovo running Windows 8.1 and the other a Macbook Air running OS X Mavericks, run a Windows 7 copy of my work laptop so I can use them on the go. Performance is excellent in both. As long as you've got plenty of RAM, it'll work fine (NB - 4 GB installed in both of the above).

Look at it this way - it's free, so it can't hurt to try 🙂

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Red Hat seems to be the flavour, sorry. flavor, of choice of here, so I might give that a go, or maybe Mint. It's just a plaything right now anyway, so no great rush.🙂

 

[Benedict_Arnold]

Right.

I got Ubuntu loaded onto a separate hard disk once I'd followed their online instructions to createa a bootable USB drive.

Now, however, Windows is the only thing that seems to boot.

Thoughts?