jw214

i want to install linux on the machine in my sig. when people say "dual boot" dont they mean on the same hard drive? i want to install it on a seperate drive. will i still be able to boot into either drive or will i have to go into bios everytime i want to switch? as long as the two different OS's are on different drives nothing should overlap correct? or will i have problems with memory, or what? some help would be very appreciated. forgive me if i sound like a nooB

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brian

yes you can dual boot with two hard drives, just make sure when you are in the phase of installing grub, make sure the first hard drive is able to be seen and setup as a secount option

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jw214

will it prompt me to install grub? so, i setup a second disc option so that i do not overwrite my windows? am i understanding correctly? i was leaning towards opensuse, by the way.

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yeah, it will ask you to instal it, slect the secount hard drive and usualy right after it will ask you to install grub

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Main laptop: hp dv9005us | turion 64 X2 1.6 ghz | 3 GB ram | Vista home premium | 240 GB HD
First build: pentium e2160 3.2 GHz | gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L | 2.5 GB ram | 160GB HD
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jw214

will i have to configure the dual boot or will it take care of itself after the install? thanks for the help by the way

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brian

sometimes. its hard to explain but it will say install grub bootloader and below should be the os'es that it can boot form, if there are two then you should be fine, if there is only one then you need to ass it which you just slect the windows drive and it will do the rest. however im not sure on suse so i cant speek from experince on that one

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Spongebob

I installed ubuntu 8.04 on a seperate drive than my vista and it automatically picked it up and added it to the boot menu... Don't know about other distro's though...

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