Root S-Off help please

[HaTrEd360]

Well you still need a USB or a DVD. Lol

 

[FoxyDrew]

In my opinion you should get S-OFF. There's little risk, and it opens up a bunch of possibilities/lots of cool stuff to play with.

Because I saw this, and sorry that its off topic, but what can you do with S-OFF? I know you can downgrade your bootloader, and flash ROMS that require S-OFF, but other than that what is S-OFF for?

 

[Palmetto Fellow]

Uhm hello? Lol there's a Windows Installer for Ubuntu Desktop. Or am I just being dumb and that's something else?

Would this method require an empty partition on the hard drive? If you don't already have that partition, you're going to have to format with a second partition, then reinstall windows, then put Ubuntu on the other partition. I'd only go this route if you plan to keep using Ubuntu, and you already have another partition on the HD waiting to be used.

 

[ron scubadiver]

Ubuntu creates a new partition automatically. It does install grub and is set to boot Ubuntu as a default. Probably easiest to make a DVD for most people.

 

[Palmetto Fellow]

Ubuntu creates a new partition automatically. It does install grub and is set to boot Ubuntu as a default. Probably easiest to make a DVD for most people.

How does that work? Does it make the partition out of a working environment, and preserve the content that was originally on the drive? I've always been of the assumption that making a new partition means losing the existing one.

 

[OverByter]

How does that work? Does it make the partition out of a working environment, and preserve the content that was originally on the drive? I've always been of the assumption that making a new partition means losing the existing one.

No, it'll let you use the free space from your existing partition to create a new one for Ubuntu. As was previously posted, it installs Grub so you get an onscreen display of which environment that you want to boot into.
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