> Next, I have a question about putting Win 2000 and Red Hat 8.0 on the same box. >Unfortunately, due to the network set up at work I'm forced to use MS office for >making work documents, presentations, etc, so I have to have windows in some form at >home. I wanted to give Red Hat 8.0 a test run, so I was wondering what the best >method of running both in one box would be. I was considering using partition magic >to make three partitions... one data, one win, and one linux. But, I was also >looking at a new option... using removeable hard drives instead. Put Win 2000 on a >removeable, Red Hat on a removeable, and leaving a data hard drive in the box. What >do you guys think?
First of all, Redhat 8.0 comes with OpenOffice, which will open and save Office Documents. There is little reason to run Office 2000/XP, unless you like spending money. In that case, I can give you my address and you can send your spare money there. The removable harddrive idea is pretty good. Make the data drive fat32, and both Linux and Windows 2000 will be able to read/write to it. Be aware that there is no security on fat32, so if you plan to do multiuser or you wish to allow net access to your fat32 drives, you'll have open permissions on the data drive. My favorite way to do dual booting is to just buy two disks. One for OS 1, the other for OS 2, then there isn't a danger of me screwing up partition tables. Mark -- | Mark C. Ballew | Graduate Student, University of Nevada, Reno | Homepage: http://sublinear.net | RAWUG President: http://rawug.org | UNR GS-ACM Treasurer: http://www.cs.unr.edu/~gsacm _______________________________________________ RLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.rlug.org/mailman/listinfo/rlug
