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Linux Box

Discussion in 'Community Broadband & Computers' started by gammonbabe, Aug 3, 2004.

  1. gammonbabe

    gammonbabe New Member

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    My HD died Friday on one of my PCs, so I am putting a new 250GB HD in it. I have purchased Suse Linux Professional and want to set up a Linux partition to do work, but keep the Windows partition to keep gaming.

    I believe that is the correct way of doing this, I'm a Linux noob, and this is really not my strong suit. If anyone has advise on how to set it up so I can start running Linux as my main OS and still play games like Dark Age and Doom (yeay), I am very open to suggestions.

    Marianne
     
  2. boomertsfx

    boomertsfx Booyakasha!

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    Have you already install and partitioned the drive? if not, have windows only use xGB of space and then when you install suse, it will see the free space and install there. It will probably install a bootloader such as lilo or grub in which you'll be able to choose the OS to boot to.

    If you've already installed, you may have to use partition magic or something similar to resize down your partition so there is space for linux.
     
  3. WesGurney

    WesGurney New Member

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    Why not run both at the same time using Virtual PC :)

    Whats nice about doing this way is that you can run Windows XP and Linux at the same time without rebooting. Not having to reboot is such a refreshing feature when you realize you can pause the Linux Virtaul PC and start up your games in Windows XP. You can also share file's between OS's and run as many instance's of OS's that you want.

    I currently have Windows XP (primary), Redhat (Virtual PC), and Mac OSX (PearPC emulator) running all on one machine concurrently - 3 different OS's than I can access without rebooting with access to the internet.

    Here is a link with more information: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/virtualpc/default.mspx
     
  4. WesGurney

    WesGurney New Member

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    Pictor Guy New Member

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    You can still share files between OSes in a dual boot setup. :)

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  6. WesGurney

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    True, but you have to reboot if you want switch to the other OS.
     
  7. boomertsfx

    boomertsfx Booyakasha!

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    So you want to run Linux on a Windows base... that seems somehow ironic.

    =)
     
  8. Dwarflord

    Dwarflord New Member

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    You can run linux and use wine to access / run your windows applications. There are also other freeware tools out there where you can run a windows OS and access linux files and vice versa w/out having to reboot into the other OS. All of this is free. I think virtual pc or vmware costs $$. I prefer free....;)

    DwArFlOrD
     
  9. WesGurney

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    Yeah its even more trippy when you put MacOSX on a Windows base too.

    Its like having Linus Torvalds and Steve Jobs all playing nicely toegether at Bill Gate's house. :D
     
  10. boomertsfx

    boomertsfx Booyakasha!

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    well sure, it makes sense to run windows on linux, but not vice versa 8)
     
  11. gammonbabe

    gammonbabe New Member

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    No. I want to run Linux and be able to play windows games. I will check into the tools mentioned and see if they work, and if not I will partition and reboot when I need to do work.

    Marianne
     

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