I think my posts got blended with a dual boot the 2nd drive will allow you to preserve your finicky windows 7 bootsector
It can help with some performance issues to have your virtual drives stored on a seperate physical drive from the OS especially in vmware server on windows it can make your system crawl I do alot of weird vm things just to try them and there is a setting that looks like you can map a virtual machine directly to a physical storage device but I'm out of room to test this fully but it would be immense to have a dual boot with vm abilities for you to access your non dominant os That's been my holy grail of vm/dual boot (just above accelerated graphics in a vm) On 5/17/10, Bryan O'Neal <bryan.on...@theonealandassociates.com> wrote: > Stephen why the external drive vrs a virtual drive using virtual box > or VMWare? Just seeing if you have something cool you can do with it I > have not thought of. > > On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Stephen <cryptwo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> So far all great suggestions. If you can afford it i would suggest a >> new/extra HDD for your Linux install and setting it to be your first >> drive (after you install windows with the "spare drive" unplugged >> >> That way you have a drive you can torture and alter to your hearts >> content, and you don't have to worry about breaking the boot sector on >> your win7 install. It is not repairable, you can back it up with any >> number of tools (i like clonezilla) >> >> and for a bistro to learn with, Depending on your personal technical >> masochism you can install Gentoo. It made me want to chuck my computer >> out the window during install, but when i was done I knew a great deal >> more about the underbelly of Linux, and Gentoo is pretty well >> documented. >> >> but the extra HDD i think is a very good suggestion. especially when >> learning. >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- Sent from my mobile device A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
