[hllug] Re: dual boot XP/U-10.04
- From: hc@xxxxxxxxxxx
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- Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:23:50 -0500 (CDT)
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From: "Lee Parmeter" <admin@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, April 21, 2011 13:58
To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [hllug] Re: dual boot XP/U-10.04
On 04/21/2011 01:00 PM, hc@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Lee Parmeter" <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2011 10:24
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> 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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Take a look at "backup-manager" here:
http://www.backup-manager.org/downloads/
This can be setup to use "rsync" which will sync one drive to another; in
your case you only want to write files that have change or new ones to the
other machines and download anything you don't have from the other machine.
Essentially sync both ways.
I use backup-manager" to backup a partition on my wife's laptop to the file
server nightly. It logs into the server securely using ssh and transfer and
changes or new files to the master on the server.
The only hard part is generating the secure keys for auto login over ssh.
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thanks Lee I will do the reading after day chores are done and get it
started
hh
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