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Miscellaneous => The Lounge => Topic started by: orcpeon on 24 September 2002, 22:05

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

Me: No, I just use Linux.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: Calum 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: voidmain on 24 September 2002, 22:43: I no longer have to dual/triple/quad/qintuple/sextuple/septuple boot. I have VMware.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: lazygamer 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: Master of Reality 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: psyjax on 25 September 2002, 06:57: quote:
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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: Bazoukas on 25 September 2002, 08:10: I used to dual boot in Win98 and RH.

Now am on RH 24/7
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: RudeCat7 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:
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: trc3 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: orcpeon on 25 September 2002, 10:55: quote:
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. ;)
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: orcpeon 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: LorKorub 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.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: sporkme on 25 September 2002, 13:59: mandrake, red hat, slackware, 98, dos 3
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: creedon on 25 September 2002, 19:29: Debian Woody, Debian Sarge, Debian SiD, Libranet 2.0, BeOS 5.0, Win98; I guess I sextuple boot.
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: HPC GUY on 25 September 2002, 22:25: Redhat 7.3 and XP
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: xyle_one on 26 September 2002, 00:21: i have suse8.0 and windows2000. i have spent most of my time in suse this last couple of weeks.
plus redhat7 on machine#3 (shipped with this book i got last weekend) and osx on machine#2.
i love choice ;)
ecsyle one
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: sporkme on 26 September 2002, 10:10: can i work a 5 inch floppy these days? if so i might somehow be able to boot from a shrink-wrapped backup of a floppy that says "unix backup" on the label
Title: Do you dual boot?
Post by: hm_murdock on 30 September 2002, 08:56: OS X and OS 9.2.2

I still like 9! so shoot me!