On Mon, 23 Jun 2014 09:45:57 +0200 fedora fedora@ayni.com wrote:
On 2014-06-23 07:10, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
Hi,
According to FedEx, my new machine is on a truck speeding to my local distribution center for delivery tomorrow. So hopefully it will be here tomorrow. I had two questions:
- It comes with Windoze 7 (with an upgrade option/disc for W8). Not
sure if I want to wipe it off (ideally, I would have liked to have not paid for it) but I was wondering if I wanted to do a dual boot, is there a set of instructions somewhere that I could follow? I have had no problems with earlier windoze xp unProfessional dual installs, but not with W7 or W8 (have not even seen a machine with this one). I do wonder about keeping an OS I am likely to only use when I am talking to some technical support for some service. Somehow the ones that require contacting technical support always want you to use IE. I bluff my way through on these ones.
- This laptop has touchscreen abilities. While I could in general care
less about this feature, again I did not have an option to get rid of it. So, I wonder if it is possible to use the touchscreen features with Fedora 20?
Am I better off trying CentOS on this machine because of the two questions above? I would however like to stick to Fedora.
Many shanks, Ranjan
Hi Ranjan regarding question 1) I got a PC (Desktop) with fully installed Windoze 7 as well. I then told the Fedora Installer to shrink the Windoze partition. Then I installed Fedora (without dual boot). And on Linux I installed VirtualBox and I made Windoze 7 to operate in VirtualBox. This way, I don't need to reboot, but can start Windoze like a Fedora application.
Thank you! This is a great idea! Are there detailed instructions on how to do this, telling the obscure Fedora installer to shrink the Windoze partition? Can the Windoze partition stay updated?
I would also like to have 2) answered.
Thanks, Ranjan
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