I did (or tried to do) the dual boot thing in the past and got sick of the windows-induced troubles real quick.
I have discovered two great, though more expensive, solutions to this dual boot with windows thing. 1) Buy another computer. Granted, it might cost $400, but it sure simplifies things ;-) 2) Buy a 5.25" removable drive bay, two sleeves for it, and a second hard drive. Install Windoze on the first removable drive/sleeve and Linux on the second. This is more reasonable cost-wise, coming in under $200 (who knows, maybe under $100?). I know, I know, not everyone can afford (or wants to) do these types of things. I did #2 first, and then progressed to #1. #2 leaves some cool options like getting more removable sleeves for trying multiple distros. You could get a third, non-removable disk for storing data for all os's to access. You could get a second 5.25" bay for doing copying and backups. You could do it the hard way and skip the bay/sleeves, using a skrewdriver instead ;-) Just a couple ideas. -Jackson ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Jim K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "The Eugene Unix and GNU/Linux User Group's mail list"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 13 Sep 2003 19:07:50 -0700 > The support license has expired on the SUSE 8.1's. Oh well. >Jim K >Jim K wrote: > >> I spent the last week trying to set-up my machine as a dual boot >> with windows and linux. I have used up another windows 98SE >> CD . I was wondering has anybody else had problems with windows 98 >> or ME on a disk with EXT3 partition on it? especially >> messed up superblocks, magic numbers( I think Magic numbers is right I >> am doing that one from memory,) or FAT 32 tables? >> I know windows puts in a back up FAT that could get out of sync( I >> found this out about 1999, I am not sure this is >> the problem this time.) when the windows partition is accessed by a >> linux programs( this should be a function of the kernel, right?). >> Jim K, >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> EuG-LUG mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> > > >_______________________________________________ >EuG-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
