Dear Debian folks,
I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the
machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know
many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain
things I do..
I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I
There's nothing amd64 specific in this question, debian-user would
have been better.
On Qua, 08 Dez 2010, Michael Fothergill wrote:
I bought an extra SATA drive and hooked it up so now I have two one
with Debian on it. My plan is to install Windows on the new
drive.. If you installed
trust grub to boot Windows that trust
Windows to boot anything that is not Windows.
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The crux of the matter -- trust
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Is debian-lenny open source? Windoze obfuscated? Best to have two
separate boxes interconnected by ether-net.
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:43:02AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debian folks,
I an running Lenny on an AMD64 box. I have 8GB of RAM on the
machine in anticipation of putting Windows 7 on the machine. I know
many Debian folks don't bother with Windows but I need it for certain
Partition magic really isn't worth it anymore. It rarely works with
modern large disks.
I agree. A similar open source solution that works better is
GParted. They have a bootable iso that gives you the same type of
functionality.
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It is possible I think to modify the bootloader in Windows (without
using e.g. Partition Magic) to sniff out the Linux and allow you to
choice of booting it when you boot up the PC..
Yes, but it's fragile and not worth doing that way.
Depends on the version of grub:
Michael,
I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on another. Very easy
to set up. But as I remember, when I installed Windows, I disconnected
the Linux drive while doing the install, then put the WXP drive on
middle connector of ATA cable when I had that situation. But now I have
Michael, I just re-checked my instructions I had for myself elsewhere
and found I had made a mistake. In the menu.lst file make sure there IS
a space between the (hd0) and (hd1). Sorry about that.
HTH's
Whit
Whit Hansell wrote:
Michael,
I've got a dual boot. Linux on one drive and WXP on
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