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Old 02-18-2009, 12:36 PM   #31 (permalink)
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So to the users of Linux - I have started poking around on web for dual boot install but using 2 hard drives ( 1 for windows - and 1 for Linux) everything i have seen so far indicated that it is possable - but can be tricky - any one here do this and have first hand experience?
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Why not just have a removeable hard drive? It sounds like a PITA, but once it's installed, the OS head-banging is no longer a hassle. It's just like having a "big flash drive".

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Old 02-18-2009, 12:56 PM   #32 (permalink)
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Primary reason is that i have my Brothers old computer - and it has 80GB HD. So the 2nd HD is "Free".

At some point though - the "Pain" might not be worth it.. I will probably do a normal Dual Boot method on the 1st hard drive and use the second just as additional space...
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If your HDs are IDE or EIDE, Set the windows drive as the master and the linux drive as the slave. Then run one of those live CDs to make sure linux recognizes both drives.
The partition program that comes with Ubuntu is pretty easy to use.
For a while there were some problems with writing to NTFS disks in linux. So I recommend putting a small FAT32 partition on the second drive to transfer files between windows and linux.

I haven't tried this with SATA HDs yet.
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Old 03-04-2009, 02:11 PM   #34 (permalink)
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Update on my experiment with UBUNTU.
My computer HD is SATA (120GB)
The 2nd HD i have from my brother's computer is IDE (80GB)

After some web searching - i figured i would need an interface to get IDE to connect into SATA. But a guy at work suggested "Connect it up and see what happens - Backup first - but you should not damage anything - only confuse the crap out of the computer - then disconnect what you did and all should be as it was"

So here is what i did.
After some poking around with the computer, I have set the IDE drive as MASTER and connected it in the IDE port.
The SATA drive is connected as it was before.
I noticed when i did this that when i enter the Setup screen during boot, i can chose how to boot the comptuer ( like it has the Boot Menu Built IN already)

So i entered the LIVE CD and Booted to Ubuntu.
I selected to INSTALL and it asked me where to install it TO.
the 120GB Sata - or the 80GB IDE.
So i selected the 80GB IDE. ( full install - overright existing partitions ( already tool data off i wanted to))
Install went without a hitch.

Moment of truth - shutdown computer and restarted - hitting NOTHING - just letting it do its thing. Booted to the 120 SATA drive on Windows.

Restarted computer - this time entering the Boot Menu (F12 during startup)
Menu came up and i could Select the Primary IDE Drive to boot to.
BAM - there was UBUNTU.

So when my wife starts the computer - she sees the same things she always has - no change at all ( which is a PLUS)
When i want to boot to Ubuntu - i hot F12 during Boot - and select the other drive - and i get Ubuntu.

YEAH !!!!
So later today i will set up confgurations (wireless network - email - ect)

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Old 03-05-2009, 12:17 PM   #35 (permalink)
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I've used classic Red Hat, Fedora, Suse, Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Ubuntu (and its flavors) are what I've used most recently and never had an issue with dual booting on one or two drives using Grub. There's a program for everything, command lines that work as they should, and ran great until my hardware gave out.

I really need to rebuild a second PC for when both myself and fiance are working from home (just using her XP box right now), but for now I'm going to play with each different flavor in VirtualBox until I find the one that best fits my needs.
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Err... Since when? You can choose to install KDE, or Gnome, or one of several other options. I use FVWM, and it looks nothing like Windows at all. Though it is customizable enough that it can be made to look like Windows, if anyone should want to.
Sorry, just saw this. I haven't used OpenSUSE, so I was going by the screenshots I saw on GIS. KDE, not necessarily OpenSUSE, looks more Windowslike (i.e. "Start" button in bottom-left.)
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Reviving an older thread here with an update.

I have had Ubuntu on the 2nd Hard Drive for a few months now.
Only issues i have had are getting Wine to run some of the windows based games. I just need to put some time into them and work them out.

Lately i have been playing with SLAX - really cool USB bootable system - does not use the hard drive at all. I can take my entire PC on a 2 GB Flash drive. This includes the Office programs - some games - and 800MB of my ripped music.

Our Office Laptops are pretty "secure" with encription and VPN. but with the USB Flash boot - i get "My" computer instead of the work computer.

Still playing with it - but so far it is pretty neat.

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Old 05-19-2009, 12:32 PM   #38 (permalink)
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That's cool; I've been looking for a good flash-based OS for when I'm working at hotels and such.

I'm thinking about switching from Ubuntu to another OS. I like it okay, I guess, but it has some problems on my Toshiba laptop (sleep doesn't work well, it panics at least once a week, NVidia driver doesn't work properly with the docking station.) Thinking about OpenSUSE or just going back to CentOS, which I already use on all my servers.
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I have an AMD Phenom Tri-core 2.6 GHz with 2GB ram,250 GB SATA box with rest of the stuff old as dirt. (have been using the same monitor for ~8+ years). Wanted to switch to Linux so as to avoid the pesky virus problems and constant fear of catching something bad. (no one in this part of the world uses a licensed OS for home use). So downloaded a kubuntu iso, struggled with the broadband settings till I got them right, and when I did get it right, the OS pretty much took care of itself. I am on Jaunty 9.04 now, with whatever the auto-upgrade chooses to download and upgrade as it pleases.

I have hardly thought of the OS since last 15 months, i.e. since I switched, and could get the OS auto upgrade. I see the support structure behind the ubuntu class of OS flavors as the man driver for its success and universal acceptance. In India, one never tires of appreciating the 'free CD shipment' feature of Ubuntu, as organized SW products have been always seen as an exploitative business here in India.
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(no one in this part of the world uses a licensed OS for home use)
Interesting. Do you mean that pirated Windows is heavily used, or Linux is heavily used?

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