Hi You shouldn't have a problem with any of them as regards dual booting. I have 3 systems on here 64 Studio ( Running 64 bit DOH!) studio to go ( 32 bit) and some MS thing with Xp in the title. All works although the Xp drive has some dust on it!!! cheers Bob Florence Berbain wrote: > Hi all, > > Many thanks to everybody for the useful thoughts and suggestions. > > For hardware I've got a 1-year-old IBM laptop, nothing exotic, at least > everything I need works in Ubuntu. The video card is ATI, it needs > proprietary drivers for 3D acceleration, but I don't think I'll miss 3D > much for recording, so it's not really a problem. > > I think I will set up a dual-boot system: I'll keep the Ubuntu system I > now have for work, and add a DeMuDi or Fedora system for recording > purposes. Does anybody have enough experience with the DeMuDi and Fedora > installers to know if this goes seamlessly, or should I expect some grub > fiddling/trips to recovery mode ? Well, never mind, I'll just have to try, > and I'll post if/when I'm stuck :-). > > The Live CD is a good idea, I'll start by that. I stumbled on Agnula last > week, when the web site was awfully slow, which was quite frustrating, but > things seem to be better now. > > Thanks again for the advice, > Florence > > > > > > > > > > >>On Friday 11 November 2005 12:54, Sampo Savolainen was like: >> >>>If you are a linux newbie and your primary goal is to get Linux audio >>>working smoothly, you should go for Fedore Core 3 + Planet CCRMA >>>(http://ccrma.stanford.edu/planetccrma/software/) >> >>A/DeMuDi installs from a single CD in about an hour. >>http://demudi.agnula.org/wiki/InstallCdRom >>It's equally good for newbies, so long as your hardware is supported. It >>is >>known to be fiddly if your hardware requires closed-source drivers, so >>check, >>and downright ugly on older laptops. Best test is to download >>http://demudi.agnula.org/images/1.2.1/demudi-live_1.2.1_i386.iso >>and see if it works. If not Planet CCRMA is a good choice. >> >>I would also not recommend starting with Ubuntu. >>-- >>cheers, >> >>tim hall >>http://glastonburymusic.org.uk/tim >> > > > > -- Bearmusic hearmymusic.co.uk <http:www.hearmymusic.co.uk>
