Happy New Year!!!

[Bob Hemus]

Collins Richey wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 4:54 PM, Bob Hemus <ol.bob at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> Well, all you fellas and gals, Have a Happy Safe and Sober New Year!!!
>> I know some body's going to ask or tell "which"...
>>
>> Back to the basics. A retired school teacher friend of mine received a
>> laptop with Vista on it UGH!  I wrote her and told her I'd ask my
>> esteemed group of techies what the glitches were when installing Ubuntu
>> 8.04.  I 'membered when it first came out there were some work a-rounds.
>> Have they been fixed?  This gal may be a "convertible".  She's pretty
>> bright.
>>
>>     
>
> I don't know about Ubuntu, but I've run dual boot Vista on my desktop
> for a year or more, and there were never any problems. Vista responds
> to the standard grub boot sequence, namely
>
> title Windows Vista (sda1)
> rootnoverify (hd0,0)
> makeactive
> chainloader +1
>
> Happy New Year to you and yours as well!
>
>   
Most of the few I've seen are not as "point and shoot" as Ubuntu, I 
think, anyway.
Bob