do you dual boot?

[isus]

bc the linux forum was getting old...

do you dual-boot your linux config?

if so, with what? (ie winxp, win98, not grub or lilo)

[isamoor]

Let's just say I have the capacity to dual boot. I have WinXP on here too.

I like winxp, but it has a tragic flaw at the moment. A very sucky driver for my netgear network card. If I use any of the full blown p2p software that needs lots of connections, windows literally stutters, making it unusable. (i mean the screen freezes and the sound loops for 5 out of every 10 seconds) This was pretty much the last straw for me.

Been up for about 10 straight days since that fiasco, not been missin' much if you ask me. If I really start missing Battlefield, I'll just go try out the latest WineX and see if I can't get that bad boy working.

Overnet/ed2k the offical clients work the best for me for isos/movies. MLDonkey is always a work in progress to me and xmule isn't near stable enough yet.

GTK-Gnutella rocks by the way. The latest limewire's (3+) are just starting to catch up on features. I can get any song I want on there, and it's not like there was ever a bitrate cap to stifle the quality on gnutella.

Slackware rocks! (Though not for newbies, please don't rush out and try it if you've never done linux before. Go find knoppix)

Later,

Isamoor

PS What the hell is this file sharing newbie label under my name? Give me a forum newbie or maybe zeropaid newbie, but c'mon.

[cpugeniusmv]

well, i used to...before i ran the hub.

mandrake 9.1 and xp

but now i use it on a different machine because i can't really restart very often :\

[MoonMan]

@isamoor: ??

Over time I have had the following in a few different combinations: Mandrake, Red Hat, Win2k, and Win98. Currently I just dual book Win2k and Win98... too lazy to install a Linux distro at the moment.

[nasrules]

I don't have any space to dual-boot at the moment, but when I get my nice new HD (soon!) I'll be dual-booting my current WinXP with RedHat 9.

[d-koolest]

When you dual boot, is there risk of damaging your current OS (say XP)? I share a PC with my family and they wouldn't appreciate it if I destroyed everything.

[wonderboy2005]

there is the possibility, but so long as you read everything, you should be ok. and try not to repartition the drive that your current OS is on. though its never happened to me, partitioning has a nasty habbit of destroying stuff. ofcourse, you should save the partition table to a floppy in case the partitions crap out on you.

[d-koolest]

I only have a C drive and a D drive. Should I use D? it's called SYSTEM_SAV.

[notbob]

Originally posted by d-koolest
When you dual boot, is there risk of damaging your current OS (say XP)? I share a PC with my family and they wouldn't appreciate it if I destroyed everything.

i did this just this weekend

redhat killed xp's bootloader--the files were still there, but the os wouldn't boot

i tried to fix the loader, then that killed the redhat's booter

i ended up reinstalling xp on top of red hat, then moving the files from the drive (c:) to the new xp install (called f:)

from 100% to zero and back to 100% in 4 hours

linux installs/dual boots are not to be taken lightly--even "blank" partitions can have important stuff on them

[d-koolest]

I'll just wait till we have to reinstall XP then. It happens every once in a while because we've got screwy satellite internet that goes out...oh well.

[CCSDUDE]

I don't dual boot any Unix based OS's with any Windows based ones....

Have a few Linux boxes running off the 'line' without any shell booted on some old 133mhz machines with samba dishing up files and such to my main system/s. I do this for one reason...lol the old systems have a nice air flow going so I can mount up 2 or more 20-80 gig drives and run them through a PCI ATA133 card and they stay nice and cool rather then overheating like hell in my main box.

What I do boot on one 160gb drive is...XP Pro/ME/2k but I usually use 2k for video capturing XP for all around crap like p2p/movie watching/IRC chat an such and the ME is rarely used unless I'm having a 'lets play' day.

[d-koolest]

Hmm...since both are Unix-based, would Mac OS X be more compatible with Linux? I have a Mac too, and could probably get them to work together.:fire

[Aaron73153]

Dual boot WIN XP with Mandrake 9.1 and I find myself using linux even more.

[Theinfamousone]

I used to dual boot Longhorn beta 4015 and XP. Longhorn is going to be great when it gets closer to final stages. All of the drivers for my system that say they are for XP can be run on Longhorn (like Windows compatibility mode for drivers). I had it tweaked, hacked, cracked etc. into actually being a pretty stable OS, but I just decided to screw it because I am too used to XP and I would rather use the space for other stuff.

[d-koolest]

I would if it was my PC but it's a family one and my family would freak out (they have trouble plugging in the speakers or getting email sometimes). I think I'll just play around with it and try to make it work on the Mac w/Virtual PC.