where is the new meeting place?

Tom Morgan orcaswest at adelphia.net
Fri Apr 12 22:35:47 EDT 2002


just my .02... I am dual booting one hard drive. Win2k and Mandrake 8.2.
Before I put Mandrake on it I did have RedHat 7.2. Both worked fine however
I do wish I had put them on separate drives. If only I could get the rest of
my family off of winblows....

Tom

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org]On Behalf Of
Todd Wirth
Sent: Friday, April 12, 2002 6:54 PM
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: RE: where is the new meeting place?


> > Its also much easyer to install with two drives.
> > ie: one for XP and the other for RedHat. By the way which version of
RedHat
>
> Why would you say that?  I find installing different OS's on 1 drive just
> as easy as on 2 separate drives.
>
> What exactly do you find difficult about it?


Well I'd think you would agree that we should never assume that everyone is
at the same level of experience and
that there is more then one way to approach an installation. The best way to
get someone on the right track is by showing them the easyest way. To assume
a higher level of expertise like a systems admin or such would be at first
meeting the person a little much. My opinion stated that there are different
ways of installing XP and RedHat together and since we are trying to get
people accustomed to linux, I thought the easyest way is the best approach.
Yes you can install both OS's on the same drive, but some have said at
meetings and through this list that instead of trying to get both to live
with each other on the same hard drive its easyer to install them on
different drives. (ie: any windows/linux installation) Which I do agree
with, but that is just an opinion not carved in stone!

Ron


Good point Ron. I am also not intimidated by installing on one drive, but I
hate the thought of partitioningone large drive for the reason that I
someday may want more space. Installing on two drives is not only easier but
also safer IMO. I don't trust MS on my Linux drive. ;)

-- Todd



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