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| Thread ID: 49549 | 2004-09-23 01:32:00 | Linux- should I bother? | Megaman (344) | Press F1 |
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| 274756 | 2004-09-24 14:30:00 | I am using a dual booted Athlon Mandrake 10 & win XP SP2. The mandrake program is great...very professional...except for major hiccup. 1. No concerted support for software/win modems. 2. The terminology/program installation learning curve is very steep. |
KevCole (774) | ||
| 274757 | 2004-09-25 00:33:00 | I went the way the Susan described with a twist. I had a secondary drive installed with Redhat9 on it (this drive has also had Mandrake 8 installed on it and now I am considering a Debian release), then I just changed the boot order in the bios depending on which os I whated to use then I could mount the windows hdb (reason for b explained later) when ever I whated. To install linux I took what could be called the chickens way out, I discontected the power and ide cable from the windows drive therefore making the secondary drive the only detectable drive. (requiring windows drive to be mounted as /dev/hdb ). Windows never reconised the secound linux hand drive because it was a unknown file system, ext3 (but Ive since learned about samba, another project for rainy day). I would go with a secound hard drive option, how you configured the install (hardware) is your choice. Linux installs on laptops can be fun also, issues that come to mind and I have faced and not yet resolved all, touchpads and winmodems ( I got this one working with some help from the linux users in this forum). |
beama (111) | ||
| 274758 | 2004-09-25 02:42:00 | >> I have done dozens of Windows and Linux dual boot installs and have never had a situation (yet) that I could not recover from. With respect John :) you know what you are doing. I have done a number of dual boot installs and never had a really serious problem either, although when I installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Windows 2000 box, Windows 2000 now takes ages to come up (the GUI takes the same time to appear, but from then on it takes ages). |
Dolby Digital (160) | ||
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