Hi<br><br>I have a non-standard Netbook HP 2133  which for now anyway I want to be able to Dual Boot XP MCE and a Linux Distro.<br><br>The Mini has a VIA Chip and none of the distros have yet fully got to grips with maximising the Graphics though I read that Ubuntu is getting closer to seamlessly building in a new open-source driver from Via (don&#39;t drivers end up in the kernel though?).<br>
<br>Bottom line is I hop distros to try to find one that has mastered the trick of all forms of video and flash so that I can finally dump the Windows.<br><br>In doing so I recently installed Jolicloud in place of Linux Mint.  I made a mistake in thinking I could just delete the mint &amp; related swap partition and get &quot;Error 15&quot;.<br>
<br>I know I can sort it by hooking up an external DVD and doing full reinstalls of Windows and Jolicloud or whatever and maybe next time I&#39;ll do the Express install of Jolicloud which I think uses Wubi making uninstallation easy (it says)<br>
<br>Whilst I&#39;d like to learn to avoid these messes in the first place, I&#39;d like to know how to fix them much more quickly too.<br><br>I read on Lifehacker of Wintoflash and thought that would speed re-installations of Windows (maybe it doesn&#39;t like  MCE version of XP) or maybe the cross disk installation process caught out the software (as it didn&#39;t ask me to swap disks) but it doesn&#39;t get to an installation/repair type screen, though it will start windows from a grub like menu but doesn&#39;t fix boot on restart.<br>
<br>I&#39;ve also tried super grub disk on systemrescuecd-x86-1.6.2 and can access and fully use either of the OSs on the hard disk fine.<br><br>Having the usb stick in to do this each time is of course daft.<br><br>GRUB/MBR and Xorg seem to be two that really I need to get to grips with but i&#39;ve yet to build confidence or even familiarity in digging around much in Linux - kinda just want it to work.<br>
<br>Lots (&amp; lots!) of info online but are there some golden rules / infallible-simple-quick sources to go to prevent &amp; sort my problems. Is there a master tool kit on a usb stick. I&#39;ll try and get along to one of the meetings sometime.<br>
<br>Er, I think that&#39;s quite enough<br><br>Steve<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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