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[Rick Radzville]

I just set up my laptop to triple boot between XP Tablet,  Win2K3
Enterprise Edition, and FreeBSD 6.0.2. I would point out that you want to
install MS OSes 1st, oldest 1st, then newer, then install non-MS OSes, which
are multiple-boot friendly out of the box. FreeBSD installs a boot manager
to switch between everything. I think it option would be easier to install
the OSes on seperate physical disks.

Rick Radzville

On 2/17/06, Rajiv Gunja <opn.src.rocks at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This is infact a very good Q. Since you are still deciding on the design,
> you have to consider couple of things.
>
> 01. What kind of data will you be storing on the disks
> If you keep audio and video files along with some scripts, then consider
> that. Would you need to  write to this backup drive from both the OSes or
> just be able to write from 1.
>
> 02. Will you be rebuilding the OSs often?
> If you are going to rebuild the system with new linux OSes, consider that
> too
>
> 03. what is the % of common data will you have? How much of it will be
> multimedia and how much of it will be data?
>
> Considering all this, I would say, hardware RAID the backup / data disk.
> Install both OSes on 1 disk. Software RAID on a PC is not worth it.
>
> Once you have Windows XP / 2000 up and running, right click on "My
> Documents" icon, and select properties and "move" the directory to the
> backup drive.
> If you do not have the icon on XP, click start, right click on "my
> documents" icon and select "show on desktop"
>
> On Linux, download and install captive-ntfs. It may or may not work. It
> worked for me once, but then not I do not have a need for NTFS, so I am
> free.
>
> Hope this helps you think further. I am also in the process of building a
> Linux based PVR. I am saving up money to buy parts. Ultimately, it will
> have
> dual port TV tuner card, either mythTV or that commercial software from
> the
> european company for $99 (forgot its name), 40 GB for OS, 300 GB network
> storage, shared between other computers.
>
> Good luck
>
> -GGR
>
>
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> Rajiv G Gunja
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>
> On 2/17/06, Danyelle Gragsone <ladynikon at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > good question..
> >
> > How old is your mobo?  I know with some mobo's they may not support the
> > amount of storage your are talking about? Raid systems are usually good
> > just
> > in case a HDD fails then you wont have to worry about losing so much
> data.
> >
> > On 2/17/06, Russ <rmain at polaris.umuc.edu> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I am a college student who is trying to find time to start a project
> > > building a dual boot computer.  I have most of the components now.  I
> > want
> > > to dual boot Windows and Linux.  Right now I have two drives at 160GB
> > > each, and planning on adding another for backups.  I was thinking that
> > > wach one of the 160GB HD's should house each operating system
> > separately.
> > > Would anyone sugest RAID instead, or should I keep the files sytems
> > > separate?  Any advice will be appreciated, and if anyone needs
> > > hardware system details let me know.
> > >
> > >
> > > Russ Main
> > >
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