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Santha Kumar Ravi Chandran: I have a HP laptop

i5 -4th gen with 500 GB HDD and with Windows 7. I have an idea to change it to Windows 8 and with that I am going to install Ubuntu and Backtrack5. Please help me to install these three OSes and please help me to partition it in a best combination like Win 8= 200 GB and Ubuntu=150 GB and Backtrack=150 GB. Please guide me about this partition also and suggest me some HDD partitioning.

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Shivam Gupta: Hey Santha. Your question is almost common to many other users. First thing install Windows 8 as you stated, {(why ?) because the Windows has a NTLDR loader which supports only Windows and not Linux, Where as Linux has GRUB loader which support both LINUX and windows. So, if you first Install Windows it would install NTLDR then afterwards Linux's GRUB would override it, and chainloader could be applied.} After you have installed Windows, create two primary partitions in HDD, one for BackTrack and one for Ubuntu. Second comes Ubuntu either install it by wubi.exe(present inside the iso only) or boot it in pendrive.(If you are a Beginner use wubi.exe). Now you would see NTLDR has been removed and GRUB overtook the chainLoader, Now time for Backtrack. Install backtrack in a USB stick (Via yumi i personally recommend it).Boot from PenDrive and choose Graphical Installation and then Choose your partiton you created for Backtrack> You are good to go ...!!! 3 top O.S. on your Screen. Caution: Select the partition carefully, or you may lose Data. First install Windows . While creating partition in Windows for backtrack and Ubuntu don't format them. Keeep them raw. Enjoy.

Grant Fitzgerald: What flavour of Linux can I install on an old PC that has AMD i686 processor, 1 GB RAM and 120 GB HDD?

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Anand Kethavarapu: Xubuntu or Linux Mint XFCE would be good but anyway 1 GB can work with Ubuntu unity and Linux Mint Cinnamon. Maybe it will be little bit slow especially Unity. You could also try Lubuntu if you don't care about eye candy. Dawn Foyles: I put Linux Mint on my old computers.

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Wanlamsuk Nongrang: How to install Linux Mint 16 on a Windows 8 laptop (Sony Vaio)?

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Subin M Thevalakkattu: Do you mean dual

booting? I think there is no chance for the same due to the HDD developed by that type. But you can definitely install Linux dual boot. The original Windows may be uninstalled after the partitioning. This is certainly doable.

Wanlamsuk Nongrang: I read in Linux Mint 16 release notes, and it was written that it supports EFI but I need to turn off secure boot. So I disabled secure boot and tried to boot from my pen drive where I burnt the Mint 16 Cinnamon Live DVD. But still I could not boot into Mint. Later I found that if I change UEFI boot to Legacy boot, then I can boot to mint live dvd.. But I can't mount any of the NTFS partitions.

Wanlamsuk Nongrang: Hi am feeling a little loss in the Internet speed on Centos 6 which was installed on dual-boot. Is there any configuration I need to do to optimise it for my broadband connection? I am using the pre-installed Firefox and updated the whole CentOS to the latest.

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Anand Anand: Please check Netstat -NR and ensure your gateway is correctly configured. Alternatively you can perform an Internet BW test. Hope this helps. Pankaj Tiwari: This speed lag is from the very beginning. When I use Windows, it's fine with speed. I used Ubuntu and the speed was great..but there is something with CentOS which is making its Internet access speed slow. Fahad Ahmed: Is this the first time you faced this problem? Did you face this problem before you were using CentOS?

Nivas Baskaran: Guys, what are the courses a system administrator can do? Please suggest.

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Anand Anand: You can even learn RHCA, else in the networking domain, you can learn CCNA or CCNP. Dawn Foyles: I put Linux Mint on my old computers.