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541132 2007-04-15 05:10:00 Hi all,

I have two SATAII 200 gig Seagate hard drives installed.
One is usually a backup of the other. Not at the moment though as I also copy important stuff to the DVD writer.
The O/S I use is WinXP64 Pro.
The O/s boots off the first hard drive OK and I have drivers for all the hardware I have.

I also have 5 ide drives which are not installed in my computer at the moment. They range from 8.4 Gig up to 40 Gig. They all work as I connected them and was able to format all were connected as slave. I found two for use as paperweights. :-)

The only IDE drive installed is a DVD Writer set as master.

I use Virtual Daemon to mount images. This works under my current O/S.

What I would like to do is install one of the IDE hard drives and dual boot a version of Linux along with my current O/S.

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Computer TONY-7IGNXHFNUA
Generator Administrator
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
Edition 5.2.3790 (Win2003 Retail)
Date 2007-04-15
Time 15:20

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Computer:
Operating System Microsoft Windows XP Professional
x64 Edition
OS Service Pack Service Pack 2
DirectX 4.09.00.0904 (DirectX 9.0c)
Computer Name TONY-7IGNXHFNUA
User Name Administrator
Motherboard:
CPU Type DualCore AMD Athlon 64 X2, 2200 MHz
(11 x 200) 4400+
Motherboard Name Asus A8N-SLI Premium (3 PCI, 1
PCI-E x1, 1 PCI-E x4, 2 PCI-E x16, 4 DDR DIMM, Audio, Dual Gigabit LAN, IEEE-1394)
Motherboard Chipset nVIDIA nForce4 SLI, AMD Hammer
System Memory 2048 MB (PC3200 DDR SDRAM)
BIOS Type Award (09/14/05)
Communication Port Communications Port (COM1)
Communication Port ECP Printer Port (LPT1)
Display:
Video Adapter NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT (256 MB)
Monitor Philips 190B (190B6) [19" LCD] (BZ
323065)
Multimedia:
Audio Adapter Creative SB X-Fi [NoDB]
Storage:
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Parallel ATA
Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
IDE Controller NVIDIA nForce4 Serial ATA Controller
SCSI/RAID Controller SCSI/RAID Host Controller
Disk Drive ST3200827AS (186 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive ST3200827AS (186 GB, IDE)
Disk Drive HP photosmart 7200 USB Device
Optical Drive FT3101K JZQ221Q SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive FT3101K JZQ221Q SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive FT3101K JZQ221Q SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive FT3101K JZQ221Q SCSI CdRom Device
Optical Drive PIONEER DVD-RW DVR-110D
(DVD+R9:8x, DVD-R9:8x, DVD+RW:16x/8x, DVD-RW:16x/6x, DVD-RAM:5x, DVD-ROM:16x, CD:40x/32x/40x
DVD+RW/DVD-RW/DVD-RAM)
SMART Hard Disks Status OK
Partitions:
C: (NTFS) 190771 MB (141187 MB free)
D: (NTFS) 190779 MB (190447 MB free)
Total Size 372.6 GB (323.9 GB free)
Input:
Keyboard Standard 101/102-Key or Microsoft
Natural PS/2 Keyboard
Mouse PS/2 Compatible Mouse
Network:
Network Adapter Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI
Gigabit Ethernet Controller (10.1.1.10)
Peripherals:
Printer hp photosmart 7200 series
Printer PDFCreator
USB1 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - OHCI USB Controller
USB2 Controller nVIDIA MCP04 - EHCI USB 2.0
Controller
USB Device hp photosmart 7200 series
USB Device USB Composite Device
USB Device USB Mass Storage Device
USB Device 		Sweep (90)
541133 2007-04-15 08:17:00 Okay, so what was the question?

Of course you *can* do it, but Im not sure about what you're specifically asking...

If you want to know if your hardware will be supported, try something like SimplyMEPIS, or Knoppix (Bootable LiveCD).

And of course, linux will take care of the boot process ;) 		Chilling_Silence (9)
541134 2007-04-15 11:07:00 Okay, so what was the question?

Of course you *can* do it, but Im not sure about what you're specifically asking...

If you want to know if your hardware will be supported, try something like SimplyMEPIS, or Knoppix (Bootable LiveCD).

And of course, linux will take care of the boot process ;)

Linux WILL take care of the boot process? So far I have not been game to install any version of Linux on this rig. I would like to dual boot and I have several IDE hard drives. I have two SATA2 Seagate 200Gig drives.

I could install an 8.4 Seagate IDE if I wanted to.

On which drive will Linux be installed. Linux will do its own partitions on whichever drive but last time I tried this after downloading a full DVD it did not install. Booted OK after making an ISO but error came up and would not install on the 200 Gig SATA D:

The last version of Linux I tried did not tell me where it was going to install.

I would prefer not to make changes unless I know what is going to happen to my 200 Gig C: drive. 		Sweep (90)
541135 2007-04-15 11:31:00 Okay, so what was the question?

Of course you *can* do it, but Im not sure about what you're specifically asking...

If you want to know if your hardware will be supported, try something like SimplyMEPIS, or Knoppix (Bootable LiveCD).

And of course, linux will take care of the boot process ;)

Extra post to Chilling_Silence after reading this one:-
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And which version of Linux? Would like to install a distro which will run whith an AMD dual CPU. 		Sweep (90)
541136 2007-04-15 13:40:00 Hi Sweep,

This may help. Simply Mepis 6.5 has good 64 bit version - runs as live CD with option to install. I have 2 SATA drives and installed to dual boot - XP on main drive 'SDA' & Mepis on secondary 'SDB'. Had no problems at all installing & part of set-up allows configuration & partitioning of drives.

Best part is being able to try first and actually install off live-cd if you decide its the distro to go with.

Other +'s :
Automatic option to install & run Nvidia drivers (no separate installation req'd)
Beryl installed and usable - even off the live CD
Synaptic packet manager - very fast
Good identification of hardware (for me anyway) including wireless kb & mouse and also USB external sound card
Really good forums and support sites.
Uses Ubuntu stable repos - so plenty of software

I'm new to Linux - but have to say transition for me has been really good. 		Brooko (8444)
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