[vox-tech] dualboot noob question

[Jimbo]

It's as if you are mirroring me completly:

I too am a gamer and experimenting with Linux (just got into debian, cool 
bits and knoppix kicks asp!).

I have experimental hard drives that are dockable.  I have 2 slots for 
docks.  If I want to experiment, I just turn off my pc, switch off my xp 
drive (with a key, no doubt), swith on my linux/experimental/whathaveyou 
drive and wala.

I have used the latest suse 10 distro and have sucessfully had 1 hard drive 
with win 98 and suse.  98 uses the fat system so I don't know if suse will 
be doable for the ntfs file system (xp).  Suse 10 auto did this dual boot 
for me gui style when option was selected.

It was cool when I had it set up this way for I could easily configure it to 
boot either as default with a time out.  I configured it to auto boot xp for 
my wife and if I wanted to play w/ suse all I had to do is select suse under 
a certain time frame.  Easy to use gui interface too.

I have used partition magic to reconfigure partions.  Nice program.

Let me know if you would like to try my distro.  Just clone your drive 
before we experiment too much.

Jim

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cylar Z" <cylarz at yahoo.com>
To: <vox-tech at lists.lugod.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 17, 2006 11:29 PM
Subject: [vox-tech] dualboot noob question


> Two questions about dual-booting:
>
> 1. Is it possible to add a Linux partition to a
> computer that's already running Windows XP on a
> single-partition drive, without disturbing the
> pre-existing Windows installation?
>
> 2. If the answer to #1 is "NO" and it is necessary to
> repartition the drive, what is the best tool to do so?
> Secondly, which OS should be installed first, or does
> it matter?
>
> I know MS products suck, but I need to use this
> computer as a gaming machine as well as an
> experimental Linux box. I suppose I could just add a
> second hard drive and physically switch the IDE ribbon
> back and forth, but that seems like a lot of hassle.
>
> I found some documents on this on tldp.org, but most
> of them are several years old and pre-date newer
> filesystems like NTFS, so I was a little afraid to
> trust the information.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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