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I currently have a HD with XP on it, I have another HD with Redhat installed, Its not connected to any machine atm, how would I dual boot both OS's on my current XP box? I do not want to use a boot disc? I heard you HAVE to with XP, do I? Also- Can someone explain what Raid is? Raid 0..etc
you can't boot if they're on separate drives (unless you RAID them, which is really a separate argument........)
RAID stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. Basically, its one of many methods that utilize several hard disks to store data safely.
For example, Raid 0 is striping, where data is written across the disk volumes in a stripe, along with a checksum, so that in case of any error, the data can be retrieved using that checksum.
Raid 1 is mirroring, where the data is written simultaneously to all the disks.
Read more http://www.swtech.com/server/hw/raid/
HmM, Thanks. If I would dual boot across 2 HD's, how would I? What would I need?~
I believe grub can dual-boot them. You can specify hd(1,0) to access the first partition on the 2nd drive.
"grub?" does that come with Linux? I have 2 HDs, 1 XP 1 redhat, I want to duel boot both, and I dont wanna format the XP one, how can I? easiest way? I am so sick of this, had this HD in front of me for a little over a year now, and I really want to use linux.
Fine, If I cant dual boot them, how would I just use the HD with XP? so if I go to my computer, it shows 2 HD's, I just plug it in to slave? Do I need to format or anything?
Thanks!!, the first link alone pretty much helps me 100%.
Reading that, I just took out my dads old PC and installed Linux, omg it OWNS~ the Desktop icons are sExy as ****, I am just having some trouble with the res, It cant probe the monitor.
get the specs for your monitor and enter it all manually in xf86config
That's just some Unix desktop environment. It could look the same whether you were using GNU/Linux, BSD, Solaris, whatever ;)Quote:
Originally posted by scr0p
Reading that, I just took out my dads old PC and installed Linux, omg it OWNS~ the Desktop icons are sExy as ****, I am just having some trouble with the res, It cant probe the monitor.
I have my Win2k box with blackbox on it :) Finally it looks decent :D
Ok I got the monitor to work, at first I changed res and it "froze" as it was probing but when I rebooted the res was changed anyway, so everything is good now, thanks.
i thought it only ran on *nixQuote:
Originally posted by Sastraxi
I have my Win2k box with blackbox on it :) Finally it looks decent :D