Hello Colin, Thursday, November 17, 2005, 7:42:26 AM, you wrote:
CN> stuffing about with a dual boot setup can be messy and in some way CN> frustrating to do some things (like working in both windows and linux CN> simultaneously). CN> My planned setup for when I get my new box assembled: I have a small LAN and like to experiment with a lot of different operating systems and software configutations, and like to clone my important hard drives, so that if one hard drive/operating system dies/crashes, I am ready to deal with it. I recently purchased a lot of 'mobile hard drive racks' from http://www.arrowmax.com/ (also sells on eBay as arrowmax) and installed them in the 5.25" bays on all my computers. The exact page is: http://www.arrowmax.com/index.php?cPath=25_40&osCsid=03416fa31e79ea172dbb72233135b039 Now, when I want to change any hard drive on a computer, instead of opening the case, I just unlock the hard drive in question from the front of the machine, lift the little handle, and slide it out, and then pop a new hard drive in. This works for operating systems, as well... no more bootloader for booting multiple systems on a single machine. I just have my data on hard drives with file systems that can be read by all the OS's I plan on using, then then I can plug the OS of choice into the 'boot slot'...the Master on IDE0. This has been around on SCSI servers for a really long time, but now it is available for IDE and SATA drives as well. Very handy. -wittig website: http://www.robertwittig.com/ weblog: http://robertcwittig.blogspot.com/ . ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/0XFolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
