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dual booting linux on an xp machine!
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littlesue
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18. March 2008 @ 19:58 |
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alright i have windows xp on a dell machine, i want to install linux v7 on a separate hard drive on the computer, both are ATA hdds
so can anyone give me some links to tuts? or do you wanna walk me though it? i have NEVER WORKED WITH LINUX BEFORE, but i understand what GRUB is at least.........
+=suziy!
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varnull
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18. March 2008 @ 20:10 |
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littlesue
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18. March 2008 @ 21:22 |
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wait...i didn't see a dual booting tut there? am i blind? also its closed
but thanks though it answered many of my questions rattling in my head??
-tripplite
i miss dvdxcopy......
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19. March 2008 @ 17:10 |
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19. March 2008 @ 17:22 |
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my gender joke was just a joke, but to avoid offense i've edited it out
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littlesue
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19. March 2008 @ 22:11 |
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yeah does tripplite want advice on dual booting or dual dressing :P
hey cant a guy dress anyway he wants with out being judged?
never used a linux/xp combo (linux debian) on the 2 separate hdds before, on a partitioned hdd yes i have xp/ubuntu/and a dead vista, i was trying to snag some free help from varnull by posing as a linux fangirl *giggle*, but she seemed to be in a lazy mood so i said screw it if she wasn't going to help me as littlesue i might as well blow my cover..... "-tripplite"..............
i miss dvdxcopy......
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OzMick
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19. March 2008 @ 22:30 |
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Right... Whatever floats your boat big boy... Practically no difference from booting from same partition. Only difference lies in the drive numbering, (hd0,0) etc may need to be tweaked. Even an infant should know how to do that... ;)
Just remember that if you want to preserve the MBR of XP drive so that it can still boot on its own, you'll need to change the boot order of the drives.
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littlesue
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19. March 2008 @ 22:48 |
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Right... Whatever floats your boat big boy
didn't your mother tell you how to speak correctly to a young lady:P
thats good i'll treat it the same as a partition....*deep breath*... time to give debian that much needed crack!
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infant
geez i just had a radical sex change...u dont think you could go easy on me;)
i miss dvdxcopy......
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20. March 2008 @ 07:11 |
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littlesue i mean tripplite, nothing stopping you using your original username now that you're been "outed" hehe :)
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varnull
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20. March 2008 @ 09:35 |
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Is there honestly a point in going through all this boredom again??
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Results 1 - 10 of about 290,000 for dual boot linux and xp
now call me pedantic, but... I don't see the word "HELP" anywhere in this whole linux area, more a "general discussion" type of thing which says to me "talk about specific things, interesting finds, systems, hardware, drivers, software, new releases and other interesting stuff" rather than just rehashing all the thousands of guides that have been written by experts over the years that explain (sometimes with pictures, and even with video for the totally retarded who will never manage to do anything without the comforting big bad making every single choice for them) everything in the finest detail..
Some people may be happy to get 5000 posts behind them in a matter of weeks by doing just that but, excuse me for having a life, I just find it pointless even answering this kind of idiotic question when google is so very capable.
Also one more lesson learned here..
No prizes for guessing that linux and n00bery are gender neutral, as is the ragging that comes from the FOSS-community towards the downright lazy.. so in closing..
I DON'T GIVE A FLYING **** WHETHER SOIMEBODY IS MALE, FEMALE, UNDECIDED, DEMOCRAT, REPUBLICAN, black, white, yellow with pink pigging spots, animal, vegetable or mineral.. they will get the same response..
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tripplite
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20. March 2008 @ 13:47 |
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littlesue i mean tripplite, nothing stopping you using your original username now that you're been "outed" hehe :)
rats!.....back to my original gender then;)
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20. March 2008 @ 15:53 |
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tripplite - i edited one of my replies, it seemed funny at the time, but to prove i've got no beef with what shape, colour or gender anyone is, i've edited it out.
As to your original question, try that sticky suggestion; it's really easy, just don't rush to avoid breaking something. Preferably try breaking stuff i mean experimenting only if you have an old spare pc to hand, then it obviously doesn't matter if you trash something;
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20. March 2008 @ 16:06 |
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Noting quite like not being able to get your main or only machine to connect to your router.. crash course in ifconfig and iptables coming up.. :lol: especially when your router is home built too, and you don't know which machine is wrong...
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20. March 2008 @ 16:08 |
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Absolutely; i live by that philosophy usually, but my goldfish memory sometimes requires the use of google :(
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tripplite
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26. March 2008 @ 06:54 |
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sweetness im awaiting a new HDD to come (THANKS ddp) i figured if im going to do this right im going to have to give debian a bigger home:)
maybe i'll partition the drive and move my ubuntu there as well:)
btw:varnull.....sry about that whole littlesue thingy back there....totally my fault:)
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varnull
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26. March 2008 @ 15:14 |
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Did I seem botherd?.. bothered? me.. look at my face.. am I bothered??
No worries, you were rumbled right off because I have this bad habit of looking at profiles before answering ;)
I can confirm the beta1 of debian lenny (testing) is working well now. The problem with libc6 seems cured.
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26. March 2008 @ 22:36 |
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Lol how can they look at you? It is just a bunch of text. The only mental image of you varnull is the little anime character in your signature. So for a I know you are that character! :)
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varnull
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26. March 2008 @ 22:44 |
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May come as a surprise.. us seniors and above have a pretty good idea of who we all are ;)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/catherinetate/
OOo is slow on lenny.. but the "proper" binaries from OOo.org themselves are great.. it looks like the debian people with their silly licensing structure have mesed something else up. To tell truth, it was only a problem with OO-writer on previously created documents which have been saved on xp or vista, probably using the M$ versions of the .ODT standard. Will test more and report back.. maybe in a new thread for non-distro softwares.
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tripplite
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27. March 2008 @ 21:16 |
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OOo is slow on lenny.. but the "proper" binaries from OOo.org themselves are great.. it looks like the debian people with their silly licensing structure have mesed something else up.
alas i just hit critical mass....i'll scrapp everything and start over in 4 months.....i dont know how those "debian people" (lol) can keep pumping out material.....
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do tell...but mother never raised me to take risks! its debian 4.0 for me (once i get another hdd)!!! its recent so they're aren't that many differences...right?
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27. March 2008 @ 22:04 |
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you wud be surprised..... "Lenny" (my full install) is some of the stuff that has been floating around in the ether for a while. If you are running a 64Bit install then it is the way to go (forget Etch, buggy as hell for a stable rls). Even then, if u hav a 32 bits install go Lenny too, Etch is a nightmare. Lenny is more stable than a stable rls (don't ask me why, it just works), but i won't take the jump to Sid for experimental (cos if it f**ks up then i am f**ked).
BTW, OOo runs fine for me, but i have a good amount of RAM on board which probably helps
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varnull
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27. March 2008 @ 23:17 |
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I can confirm tonite that the slow scrolling with OO writer is purely with documents created and saved .odt format with powerpoint/office on vista and xp. Looks like M$ are not sticking to the agreed standards and are trying to force use of M$ products for "standard" formats.
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