[hllug] dual boot XP/U-10.04
- From: hc@xxxxxxxxxxx
- To: "1Highland" <hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:04:39 -0500 (CDT)
Hey gang, I need my hand held. I have a three box Cat-5 LAN, all running Ubuntu
10.04 and I am replacing one box with a Dell GX270 I bought on ebay for $57Tot.
(looks brand new but warranty is refurbished).
The Dell has a new install of XP on a 40gig. SATA I want to add a SATA 160 gig
with. I only want XP running to use some graphic tools and I have also several
other programs that I never really found a good substitute on Linux and I never
could get used to virtual operation , or wine and wound up confused every time.
So since both drives are SATA then can either be the primary drive for the XP
to be on. Currently it is only HD installed and has a virgin copy of XP
installed on a 40G single partition, I have the Dell XP rescue di. I do not
need more than 20 G for the XP space. Would it be better to dual load on
U-10.04 on the 40 taking 1/2 of it. Will the Dell restore disk still work after
parted changes the partition? Can I partition the drive first with 3 partitions
one that would be a dup of the C: drive in ext3 or is that of value. I have not
used the Dell to make any changes just ran it to check it out. Anyway please
sort me out.
Thanks hh
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