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Skriven 2008-04-06 19:06:25 av Robert Fowler (1:123/789.0)
     Kommentar till en text av August Abolins (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: ubuntu migrate
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August Abolins -> Robert Fowler wrote:
 AA> || I think this discussion about the FAT32 partition is confusing.  If
 AA> || there's no other OS than Linux on the system, then there's no need
 AA> ||  for a separate partition and different file system, as the data can
 AA> || be shared only over the intranet.  The SAMBA configuration will take
 AA> || care of that; nothing else is needed.  Any shared data can simply be
 AA> || stored in its own Linux folders.

 AA> This was first idea.  Simply copy all my winme c:\*.* over the network
 AA> to an
 AA> external drive.  Then, when ubuntu is installed, simply access the
external
 AA> drive via Samba, and copy back the documents and files I want to keep
 AA> local.

That will work.


 AA> || As for the dual boot (XP), if his ME hardware is like mine, that's
 AA> || not an option.

 AA> Not sure what you are meaning here. Are you saying that Ubuntu can't dual
 AA> boot with an existing WinMe?  If you meant dual-boot XPp/Ubuntu, then it's
 AA> irrelavent for me... I don't plan to put XPp on this ME machine.  I think
 AA> XPp would run basically fine; my ME pc is 768meg ram, 1Ghz cpu, and 128meg
 AA> agp video.   I spent about $150 to bump up the pc to that level of ram and
 AA> video.  So.. spending atleast another $130 for XPp was not sitting well
 AA> with
 AA> me.

Ubuntu can dual boot with both ME and XP, but my ME machine lacks the system
requirements for XP, IMO.  You have a more capable machine than
I do.


 AA> || XPP does run quite nicely though, via RDP from
 AA> || within Linux on this ME hardware over the intranet.

 AA> I'm little confused (as always it seems!)..  Linux is running on your
 AA> old ME
 AA> hardware? ..and your RDPing from it to access material on your XPp pc?  If
 AA> so... that's pretty neat.  I thought RDP was only available between XP
pcs.
 AA> I just discovered that Linux has an RDP client available. That's actually
a
 AA> good advantage towards the "upgrade" to Ubuntu then!

There are Windows remote desktop clients for both Linux and Mac.  The XP host
has to be XPP.  The client allows various settings for display, etc.; bandwidth
over the LAN will easily accomodate the more intensive settings, and
performance is good on machines (like mine) that wouldn't handle a XP
installation.

Another obvious plus is you don't need a separate copy of XP.

Regards,

Robert Fowler

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