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Posted on: April 29, 2008 7:22 PM, by Greg Laden
I recommend partitioning your hard drive so that you have a small partition for the system and a large partition for the /home directory.
Now, for a point of comparison, how to install Windows Vista... ... how well this goes will depend on the machine you want to install Vista in:
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I really thought the Hardy Heron install would be quicker, but I have to admit that the Vista install in the second video was the fastest successful install of a Win OS I've ever seen. His machine must be state of the art. :)
Seriously, I went from blank hard drive to surfing the net in under 20 minutes with a Ubuntu install.
Posted by: cfeagans | April 29, 2008 11:06 PM