Well I can see that OK but for a start I will want to partition the one
drive and have XP on one and Linux on the other Part.
While I could put them on separate drive I guess I will want the second free
for back up.
I would like to know what Linux system and how to download and install a
free one as a start?
Any suggestions?
-------Original Message-------
From: Robert C Wittig
Date: 23/09/2006 13:27:10
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] New here!
Ian wrote:
> I have been using Windows computers since 91 but never Linux. I would like
> to put one of the free Linux operating systems on my two hard drive
computer
> wIth XP on the C/Drive but do not know which or how to go about it. Hope
to
> learn here.
This is what I have done:
My computer(s) all have several 5.25" front-accessible drive bays. Most
computers do, nowadays.
I ordered a bunch of drive trays/drive cages, and installed them in my
machines, making one specific tray the one where the operating system is
to be installed: http://tinyurl.com/j468z
Then, I mounted the OS hard drive into a drive cage, and plugged it into
the OS tray, and when the computer started... voila... the OS ran.
Then, I was able to use the second drive tray I installed for my data.
And when I want to try another operating system out, all I have to do is
grab a spare hard drive (something old, if you are just messing around),
pop it into a cage, and start the computer with the new/empty hard drive
in the operating system tray, and install a new OS onto it.
Doing this, you can have a lot of different operating systems on a lot
of different old hard drives, all running (one at a time) on a single
computer, without having to mess with a boot loader for multiple
operating systems, or the possibility of messing up or erasing your
current OS, while doing a new install.
Also... because all of the data is on the second hard drive... as long
as the file system on that data drive is readable/writable by all the
OS's you might want to plug in... you will be able to work on your data,
no matter which OS you happen to be using.
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-wittig http://www.robertwittig.com/
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