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Help on Linux dual booting. - Seth Karlo - 05-02-2009
Right,
I just managed to salvage enough components from various machines to make a computer for me to use (That isn't a laptop). Anyway, it has a 40 gig and a 120 gig HDD, and I want to dual boot it.
Can anyone walk me through wiping it, and then loading Linux (I have Ubuntu on a CD) and then loading XP. I want to load them on seperate HDD's. So I want Linux on he 120 HDD, and XP on the 40 HDD...
Thanks!
Seth
Help on Linux dual booting. - Grail - 05-02-2009
right, Linux is a great choice but Ubuntu inst the best you can find.
Fedora might be easier. anyway. if you have the XP installed, simply start the Linux instalation.
than it will ask you to select HD and create some partitions. Root, User, etc, but if you use Fedora it will create them automaticly.
hope can help in someway
Help on Linux dual booting. - Boss - 05-02-2009
I've given the link in Skype, but I might as well place it here too.
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_linux_a...alled_first.htm
Help on Linux dual booting. - antima - 05-02-2009
' Wrote:right, Linux is a great choice but Ubuntu inst the best you can find.Taitor! but honestly, Ubuntu is a decent distro. Other ones worth looking into are.... well install ubuntu, and if your daring, Kubuntu (or ubuntu with KDE instead of gnome. its different). and from there, you can find hundreds of OS's waiting for you to pillage and plunder.
Fedora might be easier. anyway. if you have the XP installed, simply start the Linux instalation.
than it will ask you to select HD and create some partitions. Root, User, etc, but if you use Fedora it will create them automaticly.
hope can help in someway
Help on Linux dual booting. - Turkish - 05-02-2009
Andy, hit me on Skype and I can run you through Linux like its a marathon and I'm actually an athlete.
Quick steps:
1). You have multiple options for wiping and partitioning your HDDs.
You use an option like DBN, which will 0 the drive(s) if you're paranoid about security.
An easier option for you might be to download and use a bootable version of gparted and erase everything.
2). Once your HDD is installed you're going to want to install XP and configure it first.
3). Once you have XP installed and ready pop in the disc of your favourite Linux Distro, there are multiple available. Ask and I can link you. Ubuntu however is the most user friendly flavour available to date, this comes at a cost however.
Once you get seriously into Linux you'll find it a little harder to effect the serious geek changes under Ubuntu you're used to making. Its not impossible, you just need to learn a modified workflow to get it done, regardless Ubuntu is a powerful distro to work with and easy for beginners.
You'll want a minimum of two partition fors Ubuntu; Root and Swap. You do however have the option of creating multiple partitions and assigning them to places like /home.
Given that you have two HDDs and are new to this I would recomened selecting the HDD you want to use as the Linux native and allow the Distro to autoformat the partitioning.
Now for filesystems you have a lot of options, Reiser, XFS, Ext2, Ext3, and even Ext4 on the newest Ubuntu discs. The standard however is Ext3 with Journaling enabled.
Make sure to install grub during the installation, without it you'll have to go back and do that portion again manually. Grub is your bootloader, if you don't know its what allows you to select between multiple operating systems on boot.
Help on Linux dual booting. - Seth Karlo - 05-02-2009
Uhhhh, that could be in Greek for all the sense it made.
I'll hit you on Skype.
Help on Linux dual booting. - Turkish - 05-02-2009
I saw that one coming.:P
Help on Linux dual booting. - Seth Karlo - 05-02-2009
I'm on Skype.
Help on Linux dual booting. - farmerman - 05-02-2009
Did you get it sorted out?
Help on Linux dual booting. - Seth Karlo - 05-02-2009
Well, kind of.
Basically, I loaded my Ubuntu 9.04 disk in and started it going, and got a screen full of errors.
Aha, just realised, this piece of *Censored* is so old it's a *censored* AMD processor, not an Intel, and the motherboard was made before Jesus Christ was born... *Sighs*