On Thu, 16 Aug 2001, Peter S Galbraith wrote:
>
> "Piotr R. Sidorowicz" wrote:
>
> > My suggestion, avail yourself of two removable HD trays and an extra HD
> > (one for W2K, other for Linux), so you can swap from one to the other.
> > I do not recommend both OSes on the same HD, as the Redmond product
> > doesn't play nice, and has a nasty habit of corrupting
> > "unrecognized" partitions. I found out the hard way, so take my word on
> > this.
>
> You must be one of the few people on earth that has problems with
> this. I would certainly never recommend going to such extremes.
>
> I tend to keep all partitions primary, and that keep Windows from
> fudging with them. But even that is something most people don't
> have a problem with.
Ok, I guess I stirred up a lot of controversy here, which wasn't my
intention. I guess a follow-up is in order (that said, I do not wish to
start a religious war)
In reference to the partition issue. The dual boot solution worked OK for
a good while. What went wrong and how:
Scenario: large HD, two partitions NTFS and ext2, plus 1/3 of HD space
still unpartitioned.
Problem: NTFS partition full;
Obvious solution: create another partition in unused space (using WinNT
disk manager.)
Result: New partition created, but ext2 partition corrupted beyond repair.
Conclusion: As long as you don't try to use the disk manager, and you
have all crucial data in the linux partition backed up somewhere, you are
likely to be ok. Personally, I've learned to be distrustful of Redmond
products, and I keep them separate. Just not worth the potential hassle.
In reference to Vmware. Indeed if one needs to use both OSes
simultaneously on one machine, then this is what one should consider.
IMHO, emulators should be used only as a last resort. Personally, I wasn't
too impressed with vmware's performance out of the box. I tinkered with it
for one evening, and undoubtedly it can be tweaked, however I just don't
have the time or the patience; for me, it's cheaper/faster to set up a
separate computer and to network it. ( As a side note, I don't find much
use for Redmond products these days anyway :) )
Regards,
Piotr
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