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Colonel Sanders · 04-24-2005, 11:50 AM

I'm not sure there are any such distors, at least I don't know of any. Doesn't BeOS require you to give up some hard-drive space (I cant remember if it needs it's own partition or just a really large file) and also reboot your PC everytime you want to run BeOS? I think what you might want to look into is getting a virtual PC that can run under windows and then you could run any distro of Linuxwithout haveing to leave or reboot windows. =) However you would need quite a bit of RAM.

Otherwise I'd suggest you look into dual-booting. I don't know much about it, however last time I tried with Mandrake, it automatically set up a dual boot. I don't know how many distros can succesfully dual-boot windows and Linux,. If that doesn't work, then there is a thread here about dual booting.

L J

04-24-2005, 11:50 AM	#2
Colonel Sanders Resident AMD enthusiast Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Kansas Posts: 1,445	I'm not sure there are any such distors, at least I don't know of any. Doesn't BeOS require you to give up some hard-drive space (I cant remember if it needs it's own partition or just a really large file) and also reboot your PC everytime you want to run BeOS? I think what you might want to look into is getting a virtual PC that can run under windows and then you could run any distro of Linuxwithout haveing to leave or reboot windows. =) However you would need quite a bit of RAM. Otherwise I'd suggest you look into dual-booting. I don't know much about it, however last time I tried with Mandrake, it automatically set up a dual boot. I don't know how many distros can succesfully dual-boot windows and Linux,. If that doesn't work, then there is a thread here about dual booting. L J __________________ Main: Gigabyte GA-770T USB3 - Phenom II 840 - 4GB DDR3 - Radeon 5750 1GB HTPC: MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - Athlon II 250 - 4GB DDR2 - Radeon 5670 512MB HTPC: Zotac GeForce 6100E-E - Athlon X2 5800+ - 4GB DDR2 "Play a Windows CD backwards and you'll hear satanic voices, thats nothing, play it forwards and it installs Windows."