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06-22-2003, 11:55 PM
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Dual Booting?
Hi, i recently went over to my friends house, and he's running LInux on one of his computers. So i sat there for a coupl eof hours jus tmessing around on it, and i LOVED! it. Ive only got one computer, so I was wondering if someone could tell me / show me a place taht tell me how to Get my computer to Dual Boot *Win 98SE, and some Linux Distro*
THAnks! Last edited by vizun; 06-22-2003 at 11:57 PM. |
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06-23-2003, 10:26 AM
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You can get Linux distros at www.linuxiso.org. If you have a second hard drive, I'd say format that and use it for Linux. If you don't, the other option would be to create a new partition on the current hard drive and install Linux there. It will install a boot manager (most likely Lilo) so you can select which OS to boot to when you start up.
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06-23-2003, 02:00 PM
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If you only have one hard drive you may not even need to create a new partition as many of the linux cd`s will do it all for you. I have used mandrake 9 and red hat 9 and if you boot from cd the install will walk you through all you need.
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06-23-2003, 03:00 PM
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I have 2 harddrives, C drive is 6 gigs, and D drive is 20 gigs. Is it possible for me to create a new partition on my D drive, and install Linux there?
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06-23-2003, 04:30 PM
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Yep, Linux is not finicky like Windows.
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06-23-2003, 08:11 PM
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get red hat or mandrake
you want to DAP (download acceletor plus speedbit.com) to speed up the thing,and resume the downloads if it get interrutped. do you have cd-burner? thats very preferable,to boot linux and install it,even though there is another way around.. |
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06-24-2003, 02:36 PM
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i lik eall teh feutures of suse linux but i might be gettign redhat soon so i might liek it better
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06-27-2003, 12:27 AM
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Sweet, so i can just d/l the three Red hat Files, boot from disk, and Red hat will partition for me? or how does that work?
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06-27-2003, 05:34 AM
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Just pay attention during the install, there is alot of hand holding going on.
Just a note... Windows 2K &/or XP are not picky about where they are installed, however, make sure you install your windowsOS first, the the Linux (or BSD) distro. windows over writes the MBR. I also recommend setting up a Fat32 partition for file sharing between the OS's.
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01-06-2004, 07:55 AM
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I am also intereted of installing Windows XP and Linux on one hdd, and I am reading some books on it. But now there is a question, what is MBR(MASTER BOOT RECORD) and what is it for? |
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01-06-2004, 02:26 PM
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01-07-2004, 07:17 AM
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IS MBR a kind of Windows files or not?
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