steventimothy
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Tried to install Fedora 10 as dual boot with Vista 64. Couple of thoughts:
I am a video motion graphics designer who wants to try a few demos on Linux (Autodesk Alias, Toxic) to see how they work on Linux, (IE, to see if they're faster, so that I can be more creative.)
However, because of this process, I seem to be trapped in a nerd nightmare from which there is no escape.
Here's the problem:
1) Nerds are the only ones that use Linux.
2) They are no good at explaining processes to non-nerds.
Hence the endless loop I'm stuck in.
For example, although claiming to be user friendly, this software is only user-friendly to people who enjoy partitioning hard disks. Also, it is useless to me, since it only goes to Fedora 8. Fedora 10 has a subtly different install process, without the minor bootloader screens present in the Fedora 10 install process. /sarcasm (yuk yuk)
Anyway, I pathetically attempted to follow the instructions to install Fedora as a dual boot with Vista. Since the Fedora 10 screens aren't the same as shown in the installation guide, I stumbled through and probably did many wrong things. (The partitioning instructions are laughably incomplete to a non-nerd) It did seem like Fedora installed on the partition I created. Fortunately, Vista still loaded. I ran Easy BCD and tried to do Grub, then NeoGrub, but each time the Vista Bootloader told me that the boot failed.
At $100 per hour my rate x 10 wasted hours, I'm up to $1000 for this free solution. Could have hired quite a few nerds to install it for me, but no, want to learn a little bit about Linux. Too bad I can't get the *(#*$ thing installed! All I know so far is that I hate it.
Anyway, maybe it's my new Dell XPS Studio i7 with 12GB of RAM that's causing it to not work. Really have no way of knowing. If so, I apologise to any nerds I might have offended.
Here's how this software should work for non-programmers and creative professionals like myself.
It should detect the linux installation. It should detect whether or not you have a Grub. It should analyze your disks and tell you whether it's set up properly or not. If not, it should set it up properly.
If it doesn't do that, why bother? Why waste thousands of hours programming something that
a) if you're not a nerd, you can't use it.
b) if you are a nerd, you don't need it.
I am a video motion graphics designer who wants to try a few demos on Linux (Autodesk Alias, Toxic) to see how they work on Linux, (IE, to see if they're faster, so that I can be more creative.)
However, because of this process, I seem to be trapped in a nerd nightmare from which there is no escape.
Here's the problem:
1) Nerds are the only ones that use Linux.
2) They are no good at explaining processes to non-nerds.
Hence the endless loop I'm stuck in.
For example, although claiming to be user friendly, this software is only user-friendly to people who enjoy partitioning hard disks. Also, it is useless to me, since it only goes to Fedora 8. Fedora 10 has a subtly different install process, without the minor bootloader screens present in the Fedora 10 install process. /sarcasm (yuk yuk)
Anyway, I pathetically attempted to follow the instructions to install Fedora as a dual boot with Vista. Since the Fedora 10 screens aren't the same as shown in the installation guide, I stumbled through and probably did many wrong things. (The partitioning instructions are laughably incomplete to a non-nerd) It did seem like Fedora installed on the partition I created. Fortunately, Vista still loaded. I ran Easy BCD and tried to do Grub, then NeoGrub, but each time the Vista Bootloader told me that the boot failed.
At $100 per hour my rate x 10 wasted hours, I'm up to $1000 for this free solution. Could have hired quite a few nerds to install it for me, but no, want to learn a little bit about Linux. Too bad I can't get the *(#*$ thing installed! All I know so far is that I hate it.
Anyway, maybe it's my new Dell XPS Studio i7 with 12GB of RAM that's causing it to not work. Really have no way of knowing. If so, I apologise to any nerds I might have offended.
Here's how this software should work for non-programmers and creative professionals like myself.
It should detect the linux installation. It should detect whether or not you have a Grub. It should analyze your disks and tell you whether it's set up properly or not. If not, it should set it up properly.
If it doesn't do that, why bother? Why waste thousands of hours programming something that
a) if you're not a nerd, you can't use it.
b) if you are a nerd, you don't need it.