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Undertoad · 07-26-2007, 06:03 PM

In my setup, it's just the boot sector that changed; it sets up the boot menu. It truly boots each one separately.

The nvidia drivers continue to work in Windows. When I first installed Fedora, I went to nvidia and got their Linux drivers. Everything was fine, until I upgraded the Linux kernel to this week's version, which did not play well with the nvidia drivers. Boot the earlier version and the drivers are fine.

Any Linux can run well in 64 MB, but when you add the graphical front end, that's where it requires a lot of memory. There are window managers that don't use much memory, but most people want to run Gnome or KDE, and thus the memory requirement.

07-26-2007, 06:03 PM	#5
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	In my setup, it's just the boot sector that changed; it sets up the boot menu. It truly boots each one separately. The nvidia drivers continue to work in Windows. When I first installed Fedora, I went to nvidia and got their Linux drivers. Everything was fine, until I upgraded the Linux kernel to this week's version, which did not play well with the nvidia drivers. Boot the earlier version and the drivers are fine. Any Linux can run well in 64 MB, but when you add the graphical front end, that's where it requires a lot of memory. There are window managers that don't use much memory, but most people want to run Gnome or KDE, and thus the memory requirement.