dual booting linux on an xp machine!

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!

 

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/421903

stickys are there for a reason

 

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

 

There are three links in there about dual booting. But if you're tripplite, aren't you already dual booting? Or were you telling porkie pies... http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/636984/3858880

 

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"..............

 

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.

 

didn't your mother tell you how to speak correctly to a young lady

thats good i'll treat it the same as a partition....*deep breath*... time to give debian that much needed crack!

geez i just had a radical sex change...u dont think you could go easy on me

 

Is there honestly a point in going through all this boredom again??

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..

 

rats!.....back to my original gender then

 

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...

 

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

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

 

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.....

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?

 

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