I'm also using removeable drive bays on my two current machines, I prefer having each machine rigged up with a single OS. my overall plan is to properly rig up a desktop linux machine to be my network file server as well as a number of other things, then my windows machine can use it as a networked drive/resource (as well as function as a "backup" to the file server).
at the moment my current linux box can't hold or do much, a 266MHZ celeron struggles to run linux xwindows or store much in physical drives (cheapo second hand computer). sure a really cut down gui and no applications might be smooth, but me needs more power to run some cool linux things! only thing is with removeable drives and one "good" computer means I have to spend a little downtime for one setup to use the other. Hence my need for new hardware. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert C Wittig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Colin Nash" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 18, 2005 11:16 PM Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] stuff the dual boot setup > 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/ > . > > > > > To unsubscribe from this list, please email > [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed. > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> 1.2 million kids a year are victims of human trafficking. Stop slavery. http://us.click.yahoo.com/WpTY2A/izNLAA/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/
