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Dual boot compared 2nd hard drive
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| Boulware5 2001-08-21, 12:53 pm |
| I've been playing around with Linux for a while now. But I have usually dual booted on the same harddrive that has Windows on it. Does anyone have Linux on its own dedicated harddrive with Windows on another? That's what I'd rather do because the penguin deserves its very own drive!  Question though..... It seems like this would be easy to set up as I could boot from either the first HD or the second HD by making the change in BIOS each time. Is it as simple as that or is there something else I should be aware of? | |
| ccieToBe 2001-08-21, 1:37 pm |
| I don't have any of my harddrives dedicated to one OS, but that's just because I want to use as many OSs as possible and I'm too cheap to buy that many harddrives 
You could use the BIOS to choose between OSs with this setup, but I think it's a pain to do that each time you want to switch. LILO should work with the second drive and function just like it does when both OSs are on the same drive. | |
| Boulware5 2001-08-21, 2:04 pm |
| Oh, so when I install Linux (not positive which distro yet, probably Caldera or RH) it will see Windows 2000 on my other harddrive and install LILO on my 2nd (Linux) harddrive?
I have a cable modem connected to a Linksys USB network adapter. I was pleasently surprised that when I installed the latest Mandrake version a few months ago, it recognized that and automatically set up DHCP for me. I assume because it's the same kernel, another distro like Caldera and Redhat will enable me to use my cable modem on that USB adapater as well - or I wont have much use for it. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-08-21, 2:40 pm |
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Originally posted by Boulware5
Oh, so when I install Linux (not positive which distro yet, probably Caldera or RH) it will see Windows 2000 on my other harddrive and install LILO on my 2nd (Linux) harddrive?
I have a cable modem connected to a Linksys USB network adapter. I was pleasently surprised that when I installed the latest Mandrake version a few months ago, it recognized that and automatically set up DHCP for me. I assume because it's the same kernel, another distro like Caldera and Redhat will enable me to use my cable modem on that USB adapater as well - or I wont have much use for it.
I think LILO is installed on the /boot directory, so by default it would be on whatever HD the / partition is. If you want these to be sepperate drives you could create a small /boot partition. Be sure to have a Windows boot disk handy in case something goes wrong.
Mandrake is the best distro I've used as far as hardware support goes. A USB network adapter sounds fairly rare, so there's a good chance it won't be autodetected. It could probably be manually installed though. If I were you I'd invest in a PCI NIC. The USB interface may actually be slowing down your Internet connection at times. | |
| Boulware5 2001-08-21, 3:17 pm |
| No a USB network adapter shouldn't slow anything down. The USB bus is 12 mb/s - that's plenty for internet access I check my connection speed occassionaly and I get great bandwith, sometimes as much as nearly 3 MB/s. | |
| ccieToBe 2001-08-21, 3:32 pm |
| I'm just speaking from what I obsevered from someone else's USB NIC. I was at a LAN party where someone had one, and they kept lagging behind everyone else. This was on an ethernet hub, so it wasn't an ethernet vs. fast ethernet thing. I'm not sure exactly what it was. Maybee he just had a low quality converter. |
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