Groovy Arcade; Groovy Mame; Ubuntu; MameUI32: Where do I start?

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Spacedueler:
I ran the Groovy Arcade LiveCD and couldn't believe that after messing with Soft15khz, setting and resetting the monitor's width and height and never getting things just right, every included game filled the screen and just looked awesome. So I think I'm going for the hard disk install. So my quetions are:

1) since I don't have a dedicated drive for the install I need to pre make some partitions. What file system do I need so set up for the install? Ext3?
2) will this work next to my Windows XP and Ubuntu partitions and will I be able to boot to Groovy Arcade from Grub2?

Thanks

Ansa89:
1) Ext3 should be ok, but the best is ext4 (imho).
2) Yes, groovyarcade is a "normal" linux distro, so it can live next to windows and other linux distros without problems, and you can boot it from grub2 (you need to know how to edit its config file).

Spacedueler:

--- Quote from: Ansa89 on January 25, 2012, 03:46:41 am ---1) Ext3 should be ok, but the best is ext4 (imho).
2) Yes, groovyarcade is a "normal" linux distro, so it can live next to windows and other linux distros without problems, and you can boot it from grub2 (you need to know how to edit its config file).

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I installed GA to an empty partition (sda3). Something happened to my Grub2 (installed with Ubuntu 11.10) - I get error 17. Thought I'd ask about that here while I start to Google for solutions. Did GA install it's own Grub settings on top of my existing installation possibly?

Ansa89:

--- Quote from: Spacedueler on January 25, 2012, 01:16:04 pm ---Did GA install it's own Grub settings on top of my existing installation possibly?

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Yes, you need to reinstall grub2 from your ubuntu installation (there are a lot of how-to for this).

Calamity:
I could fix the "error 17" issue on my USB installation by editing GRUB params like this:

root (hd1, 0) ... change it for: root (hd0, 0)

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