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orcpeon

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Do you dual boot?
« on: 24 September 2002, 22:05 »
Yes/No, and if yes, with what OS's?

Me: No, I just use Linux.
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« Reply #1 on: 24 September 2002, 22:39 »
yes, winME (since it is the only system that actually can support all my laptop hardware, except win98se at a real push, and then you can't get the external CDRW to work), and also mandrake 8.2. mandrake works like a dream most of the time, but will not work with my CDRW or my modem, which are the two things i need it to work with most. I also cannot get an MSWordalike that will open my girlfriend's formatting-heavy CV, so windows stays.

I used to have red hat 7.0 and briefly had turbolinux 6.1 but neither installer would set up X correctly for my video card.

I would prefer to triple or quad boot with a non MS DOS running windows 3 on top of it, and perhaps FreeBSD as well, or Solaris maybe. I don't have enough hard drive space though, and i can't get a partitioning tool that will make all the partitions anyway. Not only that i thnk my BIOS gets confused if more than 4 partitions exist, and that's what i have with my dual boot system at the moment.
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« Reply #2 on: 24 September 2002, 22:43 »
I no longer have to dual/triple/quad/qintuple/sextuple/septuple boot.  I have VMware.
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« Reply #3 on: 24 September 2002, 22:44 »
YES! I DUAL BOOT! I have XP on one harddrive, and a Libranet that needs a little more attention from yours truly, on the other.
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« Reply #4 on: 25 September 2002, 06:53 »
triple boot. Slackware Redhat Win98. I plan to put anotehr one or two OSes on it though. I love having a 40GB drive.
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« Reply #5 on: 25 September 2002, 06:57 »
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Originally posted by The Master of Reality / Bob:
triple boot. Slackware Redhat Win98. I plan to put anotehr one or two OSes on it though. I love having a 40GB drive.


Come to think of it, I triple boot too. OS9, OSX, and YDL.
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« Reply #6 on: 25 September 2002, 08:10 »
I used to dual boot in Win98 and RH.

 Now am on RH 24/7
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« Reply #7 on: 25 September 2002, 08:51 »
I have it setup, but I don't use it!

It's been this way since I installed SuSe.  Now, I'm beginning to wonder if I can delete windows off it's partition, and use it for Linux. Well?  :confused:
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« Reply #8 on: 25 September 2002, 10:05 »
I got winderzME, lycoris and mandrake 9.0 beta 2.  Then of course I got OS X on my mac, Ive been thinking of putting yellow dog on there but havnt yet.
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« Reply #9 on: 25 September 2002, 10:55 »
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Posted by Calum:  mandrake works like a dream most of the time, but will not work with my CDRW or my modem


Quite foul.  What brand of CDRW do you have?  Mine is a Plextor 40/12/40A and it works great under Linux (but I made sure it worked on Linux before I bought it)  I always buy all my hardware with my favorite OS in mind.   ;)
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« Reply #10 on: 25 September 2002, 11:03 »
I used to dual boot between Windows XP and Suse Linux.  Then I got frustrated with the bugginess of Suse and deleted it, and used just XP for a while (which didn't bother me since all I wanted to do was play Morrowind)  Still, I hated XP more and more as time went on, especially when I tried to install Visual C++ and it fucked up my computer where it gave fatal errors every time I tried to shut it down.  I had to use "system restore" but, guess what, it deleted half of my photoshop artwork, so I had to go back.  I also was getting more and more pissed with Microsoft, and when I read about Palladium I knew I had to eventually get away from M$ entirely.  I installed Debian, which was outdated and terrible from a usability standpoint, but it taught me a lot about how Linux works.  Then the Red Hat 8 beta came out and I decided to try it out.  I liked it so much that I backed up all the files on my windows partition and deleted XP entirely.  I've been using nothing but Linux for about 2 months now, and it feels good to finally be rid of Microsoft and their shitty policies and software.
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« Reply #11 on: 25 September 2002, 13:01 »
I was triple booting between FreeBSD/Debian 3.0/SuSE 8.0 for a long while until I took up a job developing Web Applications.  I purged my FreeBSD/Debian drive (which really was a huge bummer) and installed $hitblows 2K.  It really sucks too, because all I need the damn thing for is $hitternet Explorer because I have to test things on all browsers, and M$, being the fucking anal-leetches that they are, make this rather difficult due to their attempts at redefining W3C standards to fuel their monopoly.
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« Reply #12 on: 25 September 2002, 13:59 »
mandrake, red hat, slackware, 98, dos 3
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« Reply #13 on: 25 September 2002, 19:29 »
Debian Woody, Debian Sarge, Debian SiD, Libranet 2.0, BeOS 5.0, Win98; I guess I sextuple boot.
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« Reply #14 on: 25 September 2002, 22:25 »
Redhat 7.3 and XP
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