Lieutenant_kettch Posted April 9, 2005 Posted April 9, 2005 I had no idea where to place this, so i put it in the cantina, feel free to move this dear moderators. I recently decided to convert my computer to a Windows/Linux machine. I greatly dislike windows, but i'm forced to use it because i'm a gamer... Now, i plan on buying a second hard drive to make my linux drive, because frankly, windows and linux get along worse than a Bantha and a Krayt Dragon. I don't want to risk my computer with a simple partition, so 2 HDs it is. Now for the tough part, i need to know how to accomplish my XP/Linux machine, and i can't seem to find any websites that truly can help me. None of my friends know squat about Linux either, so they are no help. Any assistance is greatly appreciated!
RevanA4 Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 err I've use linux but the is know way to duel boot that I've found so I just made a linux boot disk that I use when I run Linux so I can't really help ya *notices the date* oh dang ya probably already fixed it
El Sitherino Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 Dual booting, use GRUB it comes with Ubuntu linux and will give you the option to install it. When you boot up it'll ask which you want to boot linux or windows.
RevanA4 Posted August 5, 2005 Posted August 5, 2005 hey thanks but I have grub it comes with redhat now called fadora(sorry if i spelled it wrong)
Leviathan Posted August 6, 2005 Posted August 6, 2005 Does it exist other MBL softwares ? I think there's another one named LiLo... PS : It is Fedora Core Project, jedigoku...
Astrotoy7 Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 resident experts sithy and jedigoku/Revan are around here as well so I wont bother moving it... just as a poimt of curiousity, what are the advantages of having Linux/Xp on your compy... Is it more applicable to a programmer type of person, which I am definitely not mtfbwya
El Sitherino Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 You can do whatever you want. Me, I'm dabbling in servers and such. Plus it's great for setting up archives.
Leviathan Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 But risks of instability are greater when you have both Windows and Linux on your PC...
El Sitherino Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 But risks of instability are greater when you have both Windows and Linux on your PC... Only if done on a single drive. Two drives are perfectly fine.
El Sitherino Posted August 7, 2005 Posted August 7, 2005 Hope you're right... The only reason it messes up on a single drive is because Windows tries to hog the HD and will try to overthrow the linux partition. Two drives is essentially like running it on two computers.
Leviathan Posted August 8, 2005 Posted August 8, 2005 Indeed, we can say Windows has never been created to "live" with another OS... (Especially when they are both installed on only one hard-drive)
Kjølen Posted August 9, 2005 Posted August 9, 2005 Really? It seems that Windows was created very well prepared to **** up any other company's OSes on the same machine.
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