I'm planning a future set-up: I plan on running the latest version of Ubuntu as the primary operating system. I'll use it for most all computing needs. I'll have Wine as well, to hopefully play games and Windows-only applications. I'm thinking about buying Vista Ultimate though, for the handful of games that have a very hard time running in Linux, even with Wine. Is this a good idea?
If so, how should I set up my hard drives? I'll have two 400 GB hard drives in a RAID-0 array. Should I have three partitions, all NTFS, one for Vista, one for Ubuntu, and one for media/games? Or will it be faster/more reliable to have everything on one partition?
boapeace_b - What games did you try installing? Do you have newer hardware and up-to-date drivers? Have you installed SP 1?
mrtessster - Why ext3? Isn't it a slower file system than NTFS-3g?
abed-nego e - After a bit of research I think maybe it would be worth it to add two more drives for a RAID 01 array.
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1 boapeace_b // Jul 2, 2008
Vista really is not worth it. I have vista because I got stuck with it when I bought my laptop I hate it because there is always something wrong or you install a game or something that is supposed to work with vista and you have to clear the hard drive and don't know why you have to do it. I would say just use XP because vista will screw you over in the long run. IT IS JUST NOT WORTH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
2 mrtessster // Jul 2, 2008
I would have two ntfs partitions for vista and windows games, two ext3 partitions for ubuntu / and home.
Other partitions for media etc are up to you. (use ext3)
If you install vista first, then Ubuntu, the linux install should automatically set up a dual boot.
You don't really need vista ultimate if all you want to use it for are games. Go for XP or vista basic.
3 abed-nego e // Jul 2, 2008
If you are considering putting windows on you computer then remove the wine and put all your games in windows. Not only it will run better, it will also make use of resources much more efficient, compared to running them on wine.
RAID-1: Are you sure you want it to be this way? I only use this type of raid if I also have raid 1 (combined they will be raid 10). This type of raid means "if one disk fails, the entire cluster of disk fails". If you are going to use raid 0 for faster io, run applications in wine, install windows on a separate partition, then I may say that you are not making the most out of your computer
Partitions: Ubuntu cant be installed on NTFS, they are meant to run on ext2, ext3 or lvm.
4 Insider // Jul 2, 2008
Linux will not work on a ntfs partition (that is windows only)
As other have stated it should be better to install XP'/Vista first and then try installing Linux
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5 l d // Jul 2, 2008
You should set up 3 partitions for Linux
a swap partition that is 2x RAM but no more than 1 gig
a / partition 10 gigs would be lots of space for ubuntu (ext3), but you may want to have lots more (especially if you are a big gamer, which it seems you are - see the link below for linux games)
a /home partition with lots of space if you plan to do music, images, that kind of stuff (ext3)
Linux uses a variety of partition formats, but not NTFS. Ubuntu can read and write to NTFS, but you want ext3 for / and /home (google it to see why) DON'T use Reiser or other exotica because you can install drivers for windoze that allows you to read the ext2 and ext3 partitions from windoze, but not other formats.
You install Vista / XP first and Ubuntu LAST!
My Ubuntu boots a lot faster than either XP or Vista and shut down faster (all my machines are dual-boot) - your experience may be different.
Linux games - happypenguin.org - (no http://www.) there are other sites as well, but this will get you started.
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