[hllug] Re: dual boot XP/U-10.04
- From: hc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 13:00:08 -0500 (CDT)
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From: "Lee Parmeter" <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:24
To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hllug] Re: dual boot XP/U-10.04
On 04/19/2011 10:04 PM, hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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
For the Dell Restore to work properly, I would leave the 40GB partition as
is. Just install the new 160GB drive and tell Ubuntu to install on the
160GB drive. You will have to do this manually and "4go" the auto-partition
option when you come to it during the installation process. The Ubuntu
installer will then setup GRUB with menu options to boot either O/S.
If you were to restore the WinXP image on the 40GB drive, you may lose GRUB
if Ubuntu installed it on the 40GB drive. In this case, you would have to
reinstall GRUB but your Linux installation would be restored.
It's pretty easy to restore grub with the "rescue-cd" if you have to do
this sometime in the future.
I have other installation options if you want to hear them.
What is the CPU and ram memory in the Dell GX270 you purchased?
Yes please do Lee, That would be wonderful since I am sort of struggling trying
to figure out how to set the 3 boxes up. Here is the Dell:
FAST DELL OPTIPLEX PC P4 2.66 GHZ COMPUTER WIN XP 3 PRO
1GB RAM! 40GB HARD DRIVE And I will follow u susgestion to just leave XP alone
on the 40 and use the 160 for Linux. This will be both a graphics work box plus
a test box for trying diff flavors of Linux. Right now I have Mint-10 and the
latest Puppy distro to start with but I am only moving at a snail pace. Sigh ,,
it is the 'ol-thang'!
And also I want to set up the small lan to backup all the drives on and so far
I am planning 2 drives on all of the rigs.
so perhaps we could consider the way I arrange each of the 3?
I am attempting to set a good working sys where this main box is in the RV is
an ECS945 with 3GRam DDR2-333, CPU is 3.2 set at lowest clock. Box C is in
the Greenhouse and same MOBO with 2GB and 2.8 CPU both have 200GB+80GB HDs
installed. I have all my main data on this A box but want to at some point sync
all three and then I can have all the files available on any puter and then can
use either to work on then my stuf would exist in 3 sep boxes so I would not
really need backup since if one box is down I have it on the other two until
the box is fixed and resynced.
However, both those boards are SATA and so are the 200s but the 80s are still
the older IDE so I wondering if I should replace the 80s with SATA to get top
performance. I noticed that BIOS sets the sys for IDE and assigns the SATA
drives and IDE # I then conclude that data is being transferred at lower speed,
losing the gain of SATA. Am I correct?
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