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Dual Booting?

post #1 of 14
5/24/06 at 1:57pm
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Has anyone tried dual booting on the Sentia? What OS did you use and have you had any success with it?

I used to dual boot XP and Mandrake on my toshiba, but after a few months, XP didn't like the company and decided to shut down my laptop. I ended up having to reformat everything.
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post #2 of 14
5/24/06 at 8:05pm
Look at my sig

can u say quad boot???
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post #3 of 14
5/24/06 at 8:20pm
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That's awesome! Have you run into any problems?
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post #4 of 14
5/24/06 at 9:37pm
The more approprite question is what problems did I not run in to......

If u can be more specific on what u want to dual boot, I can have a more specific answer
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post #5 of 14
5/26/06 at 4:36pm
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I would like to dual boot vista or linux with MCE
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post #6 of 14
5/27/06 at 3:42am
Dual booting Vista w/ ANYTHING is a MAJOR Problem right now, it can be done but is a MAJOR pain in the arse, dual with linux and MCE(Im assuming u mean Win XP MCE) is very simple if you have an original MCE install disc, and harder if all you have is a MCE image of your HDD but still accomplishable. The best tool for this is partition magic imo.
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post #7 of 14
5/27/06 at 11:46am
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Thanks for the info! Have you tried any other linux distros other than Fedora? I've only used Mandrake, but I'm intrigued by the ones that you can boot from a flash drive.
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post #8 of 14
5/27/06 at 5:22pm
I used just about every major distro out, as long as your computer can boot from a usb device then any should be fine, but keep in mind this is not a dual boot situation in the normal sense.
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post #9 of 14
5/29/06 at 8:33pm
My main concern about multi-OS's is hard drive space... how much space would Mac OSX and Windows XP take?
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post #10 of 14
5/29/06 at 9:53pm
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Originally Posted by G.9
My main concern about multi-OS's is hard drive space... how much space would Mac OSX and Windows XP take?

Are you quite daft? You can buy Laptop drives in excess of 100GB nowadays, an' drives of only 20GB seem to have dissapeared completely.
On Just an 80GB Drive, which is a good medium, you could have two 40GB partitions, which is quite a good size, in my opinion. Especially if you set it up so you can just nab the info directly from one to the other.
As a general rule, have your primary partition as large as you need it, an' make each secondary<<With accompaning OS>> at least 10GB.
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post #11 of 14
5/29/06 at 10:00pm
I like 7200 RPM, and I haven't seen a lappy drive with 7200 RPM and over 100GB capacity. Hopefully, by the time Vista and Merom are coexistent, higher capacity 7200RPM (or desktop standard speed) HDD's for laptops will be released.
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post #12 of 14
5/30/06 at 1:06am
XP needs less than 5, linux much less than 5, OSX needs between 5-10, Vista has had problems on less than 20.......

Thats just for OS, On one XP puter I have like 15gigs just in post install programs.

Large laptop hdd's are useless with so many other options like usb flash drives, usb 2.5 drives, ipods.... NAS, etc....
Go for the speed.
I have a 10k raptor, and I DID notice the speed it was that fast. unfortuneatley fast = power and heat, Dont think well see faster ND drives but transitions to SSD and hybrids...oh well
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post #13 of 14
5/30/06 at 1:13am
Hm, yeah I was interested in OSX and Vista running together... seems like I'll have an adequate amount of space left over. Plus my 250GB external for backups and file archives.

...pity about the HDD's. No doubt that capacity improvements will be made.
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post #14 of 14
5/30/06 at 8:19am
as I was saying w/ SSD and hybrids...

Size and speed will actually take a step backwards first.
Itll prolly be a couple years still b4 we see these new drives reach the size and speed of what is out now.(Mostly due to cost and that its still in its infancy)
As the tech matures youll see lower costs faster and larger of these new laptop drives.
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