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piratePenguin:

--- Quote from: worker201 ---Bad experiences dual-booting?  Jeez, man, it's the easiest thing in the world to do.  You actually have to try extra hard to get it to fuck up.
--- End quote ---
Unless you install Windows second.....

In that case go complain to Microsoft - it's them who fucked up your hard work.

worker201:

--- Quote from: piratePenguin ---Unless you install Windows second.....
--- End quote ---

That's actually working hard to make it fuck up.  Everyone ought to have figured out by now that Windows only cares a fuck about the boot sector during installation.  After the installer has left the building, you can do whatever you like (metaphorically) to the boot sector, and Windows doesn't care.  Now, when (not if, when) you have to reinstall Windows, that's when it gets tricky.  Having a boot disk for your Linux is crucial at that point, so you can get in and rebuild your grub after Windows deletes it.

GenuineAdvantage:
I still wouldn't dual boot windows. I don't trust it. Granted I didn't know a lot of what I was doing at the time, but at one point, I had windows smash a linux partition that I had. Strange how linux doesn't do anything to windows unless you undoubtedly want it to.

toadlife:

--- Quote from: Lead Head ---You do know that windows cannot use more then 3GB of ram unless you have the x86-64 version, and Intel's implimation of x86-64 sucks hard compared to AMDs
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The limit of 32bit Windows is 4GB.

Jack2000:
Was not 4gb the Fat32 limit ?

and another thing ...
cant linux (be made to) support wind
dlls and drivers natively :) anything that MS makes
can then be used on any linux distro with that addon :)

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