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Chips=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Dual bootage...  Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:01 pm |
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| I'm ghey 4 teh Hoff! |
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I know I know, it's been asked before.
BUT - I have 2 drives, but both are a little bit titchy (talking 20 Gb and I think the other is, erm, well, erm, special. 6Gb, although i am sure i've got a bigger one somewhere).
What i'd like to do is not chew up any more of my precious 10Gb of free space on my 20Gb one (currently uninstall games before installing another these days, which is bad enough!) - so is it possible to have a dual boot, where it boots from alternate disks? Windows on one HDD, linux on the other?
Just curious.
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elbow=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Fri Feb 02, 2007 9:03 pm |
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AFAIK, yes.
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Post subject: Posted: Sat Feb 03, 2007 4:46 pm |
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| The houseworks gone to pot! |
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Linux is kind and will let you boot off pretty much any hard driver, windows isnt so kind, has to be your primary driver as the master drive. So you could have 2 OS on 2 separate HDDs.
P.S is this PC actually real, i have an 80GB IDE HDD about 2 years old sittin at home, i would be willing to give you this at low price, like £10 or something, really, 20GB and 6 GB, are you serious, i have 1 TB of HDD
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Chips=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:18 am |
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| I'm ghey 4 teh Hoff! |
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ONE wrote: Linux is kind and will let you boot off pretty much any hard driver, windows isnt so kind, has to be your primary driver as the master drive. So you could have 2 OS on 2 separate HDDs.
P.S is this PC actually real, i have an 80GB IDE HDD about 2 years old sittin at home, i would be willing to give you this at low price, like £10 or something, really, 20GB and 6 GB, are you serious, i have 1 TB of HDD
lol, backup comp - 80Gb sata sat in main comp, but the mobo is fried and I don't want to spend any moola getting a new mobo for a 3Ghz P4 478 processor, when I should just go dual core 64 bit instead. The chip is good, but i need to upgrade the 9800 radeon pro to something more contemporary, at which point it's PCI, so therefore I may as well just upgrade the system at the same time. Only issue is, money. I've got it, I don't want to spend it. The chip is great, only 30 months old, seems like such a waste, but building around that - I just can't help but feel it'll hold the system back in the future (ie buy stuff now, then have to pay more again in future) if i stick with it.
Dunno, not great with upgrades.
Just don't want to spend the outlay for as long as possible 
Backups running a 2.4Ghz Celeron processor 
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Orion=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 12:14 pm |
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Chips wrote: ONE wrote: Linux is kind and will let you boot off pretty much any hard driver, windows isnt so kind, has to be your primary driver as the master drive. So you could have 2 OS on 2 separate HDDs.
P.S is this PC actually real, i have an 80GB IDE HDD about 2 years old sittin at home, i would be willing to give you this at low price, like £10 or something, really, 20GB and 6 GB, are you serious, i have 1 TB of HDD lol, backup comp - 80Gb sata sat in main comp, but the mobo is fried and I don't want to spend any moola getting a new mobo for a 3Ghz P4 478 processor, when I should just go dual core 64 bit instead. The chip is good, but i need to upgrade the 9800 radeon pro to something more contemporary, at which point it's PCI, so therefore I may as well just upgrade the system at the same time. Only issue is, money. I've got it, I don't want to spend it. The chip is great, only 30 months old, seems like such a waste, but building around that - I just can't help but feel it'll hold the system back in the future (ie buy stuff now, then have to pay more again in future) if i stick with it. Dunno, not great with upgrades. Just don't want to spend the outlay for as long as possible Backups running a 2.4Ghz Celeron processor You could buy some second hand stuff. That's mostly very good and it's a lot cheaper.
Anyways, dual boot is really easy and if you google with keywords like "dual boot winxp <insert linux distroname>" you'll find a bundle 
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gemma=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:01 pm |
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Most Linux distros, maybe not Suse, would be perfectly at home on a 6GB drive.
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Chips=GCHQ=
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Post subject: Posted: Sun Feb 04, 2007 11:23 pm |
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| I'm ghey 4 teh Hoff! |
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Gmar=GCHQ= wrote: Most Linux distros, maybe not Suse, would be perfectly at home on a 6GB drive.
Aye, and it's only for use in my Uni course anyway - so no big applications to be installed at all.
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