I install Linux first so I can partition the drive for Linux and Windows. Windows won't let me do that. Then after I install Windows, I copy in the Linux boot sector so the system boots with LINUX first and then boots in Windows after five seconds. I make Windows the default booting OS so other users who use Windows don't have to do anything. This method has worked best for me.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Dayley Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 9:26 PM To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions. Subject: Re: [PLUG-Devel] Looking for LINUX driver forSeagateBarracuda6700.10 I suggest you install Windows XP first. If you install XP second, it will remove the Linux from your boot choices. It will still be there but Windows will not let it boot. You will then have to do a recovery process to get the dual boot menu back. Microsoft OSes assume ownership of the whole drive or sharing only with other Microsoft OSes. Current Linux distributions are able to automatically install GRUB to dual boot the system. Alan On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:21 PM, Jess Savory <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the recommendations. I'll look into Fedora and CentOS. I'm > going to be partitioning the hard drive between LINUX and Windows XP. Need > to put LINUX on first and partition the drive. I'm using LINUX for doing > development in C/C++. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan > Dayley > Sent: Monday, March 23, 2009 7:37 PM > To: List for Linux development and software engineering discussions. > Subject: Re: [PLUG-Devel] Looking for LINUX driver for > SeagateBarracuda6700.10 > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Jess Savory <[email protected]> wrote: >> It's Redhat Linux 9.0. I finally got a new computer. Anyone have an >> recommendation for a LINUX version? > > The SATA standard came to be around the time of Red Hat Linux 9. It's > probable that Red Hat Linux 9 does not have a driver for a SATA host > controller. So it's not really a driver for the drive but for the > host. > > I recommend Ubuntu or it's flavors like Kubuntu for general computing. > If you like Red Hat, go with Fedora or CentOS. SUSE is also good for > general use. > > What do you want to do with your new computer? > > Alan > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-devel mailing list - [email protected] > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG-devel mailing list - [email protected] > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel > _______________________________________________ PLUG-devel mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel _______________________________________________ PLUG-devel mailing list - [email protected] http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-devel
