i recommend at least having a quick play around with virtualbox to see how kid's-play easy it is.<br><br>all u need is,<br>host OS, whatever you are on just now, even windows.<br>download virtualbox if it's not already on it,<br>
and a linux ISO, either live, or install (if u have more hd space to spare for it)<br><br>et viola.<br><br>i've really only used it for browsing through distributions, as indeed, there are some aspects which require some extra fiddling with to get to fully function, though i'm told it's all perfectly do-able. and as per your needs, you may never even get so far as to find out what doesnt work. though, coding and so on is outside my area of knowledge, so, dont know if what you'd be using it for would hit stumbling blocks with virtualised systems.<br>
<br>there are significant advantages with virtualisation. it makes the whole system a bit more flexible, and although you take a performance knock, this is often worth it from other practical productivity gains, especially if you need a multi platform environment or are likely to be in windows one moment and linux the next. no need for reboots.<br>
<br>but dont take my word for it, theres still lots i have yet to learn about it, such as how to get seamless mode to work. mmmm.... windows and linux on the same screen, rather than the guest os in a little window. very swish.<br>
<br><br>all the best with your current project.<br><br><br>"Hi Nustur,<br>
<br>
Probably not the answer you're looking for but I've noticed that Asus
Mobo's have boot loader built into them, just press F8 on the POST
screen and pick your boot drive/device.<br>
<br>
Cheers<br>
Barry<br>
"<br><br>oh... other manufacturers dont include that as standard these days? golly.<br>i just take it for granted now. it's saved me so much hassle so many times.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/30 Nistur <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com">nistur@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">@Digit I haven't looked into Virtualisation yet as I thought that it would be more hassle than having separate installs, assuming I get some bootloader to play nice. If it comes to that I may go for virtualisation though.<br>
<br>@azmodie I'll have a look at that, certainly looks like a possibility, thanks<br><br>Now I need to get my backside in gear and make sure I've got everything ready to format :)<br><font color="#888888"><br>Nistur<br>
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On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Digit (SG) <<a href="mailto:digit.siljrath@googlemail.com" target="_blank">digit.siljrath@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><div><div></div><div class="Wj3C7c"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
is it really necesary for u to have them on seperate boots? have you looked into virtualisation options?<br>that way it's easier to keep microsoft contained.<br>treat windows like a virus if possible i say. hehe.<br>
<br><a href="http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com" target="_blank">http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com</a><div><div></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2008/6/30 Nistur <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">nistur@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Cool, I might try GAG then, I was going to comment on the name... but it's not even much worse than GRUB :P<br>My problem was the Vista bootloader mainly liking to steal the XP one. I don't know by reading the sf page whether GAG will help with that but I just found this<br>
<a href="http://www.zezula.net/en/fstools/bcdeditor.html" target="_blank">http://www.zezula.net/en/fstools/bcdeditor.html</a><br>that may be of assistance to me :D The only problem would then be claiming the XP bootloader back for use in XP as I believe Vista replaces the XP one...<br>
<br>We shall see. I'm not round to that yet. I think I will probably wait until I have my nice shiny new DX10 card so I don't have to mess around too much with drivers and such.<br><br>@RJLadyman: Vista + Linux isn't a problem (apart from the fact it's Vista) It's Vista + XP + Linux. I don't really want to have to go through 2 layers of bootloader to boot an M$ OS, I just want options in whatever bootloader I choose to use for each OS and to boot straight from there<div>
<div></div><div><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 9:00 PM, gordon dunlop <<a href="mailto:astrozubenel@googlemail.com" target="_blank">astrozubenel@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I use GAG boot manager which can handle 2 hard disks and 9 operating systems<br>
<a href="http://gag.sourceforge.net/pics.html" target="_blank">http://gag.sourceforge.net/pics.html</a><br>
I put grub or Lilo on the O.S. partition and use GAG. It works with<br>
Vista & XP detecting the NTFS partition and booting via GAG. I have<br>
just recently installed GAG on a relative's new computer so they can<br>
boot into Vista or Linux Mint.<br>
<br>
Gordon<br>
<br>
2008/6/30 Nistur <<a href="mailto:nistur@googlemail.com" target="_blank">nistur@googlemail.com</a>>:<br>
<div><div></div><div>> Slightly connected with my last thread. I'm going to reformat my PC. It's a<br>
> mess and I need *shudder* Vista for DX10 programming next year and I'm<br>
> currently backing things up and planning my install procedures. So far I can<br>
> forsee a few problems and I wondered whether anyone knew if they were<br>
> fixable.<br>
> I'm wanting to definately have Vista, Linux of some flavour, XP, BSD and<br>
> possibly try OSx86 as it claims to work on my hardware (we shall see) I do<br>
> not however want the Windows bootloader asking me whether I want Vista or XP<br>
> after going past grub. Does anyone know any way of installing Vista and XP<br>
> so that they have separate bootloaders? I'm not quite sure how this would<br>
> work. Was considering installing one, changing the filesystem type with a<br>
> liveCD and installing the other, but this will probably mess up windows<br>
> drive letters and things.<br>
> Does anyone know of any way of installing the two and having them have their<br>
> own boot loaders that grub can chainload?<br>
><br>
> Nistur<br>
><br>
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