Re: putting linux in another hard drive in PC with XP box
From: Luke Matthews (luke_at_littlelukey.com)
Date: 02/05/04
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Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2004 03:54:27 GMT
I do a dual hard drive setup (a 60 and 80 gig drives) myself, and also have
comcast cable internet. What you can do is create a fat32 partition on the
second drive so you can share files between the two os's. When installing
linux just make sure to install the boot loader to the boot sector on the
first hard drive. I am currently running win2k on my first drive (1
partition) and on the second drive i have a ntfs partition (since i don't
need to share between the two os's i didn't use fat32) and three linux
partitions (/boot, / and a swap partition). All works slick. Just make sure
to set up your internet to use dhcp during the networking so you can use
that cable connection of yours. :)
--Luke
curious wrote:
> I have Pnetium 4, Dell PC (came with windows 2000) with XP installed.
> 256 RAM; 1.3 GHZ. Hard drive (C) is 40GB. Currently I have SyGate
> firewall installed for XP. I use Norton AV. Other tools used include
> CWShreeder, AdAware, Spybot, SpywareBlaster, taken from a suggestion
> given in comp.security.
>
> I have an extra slot where I can put a DVD or another hard drive. I
> am thinking to get another hard drive and put Linux. I would like to
> use linux forInterent as well. I called and learned thet my ISP
> (COMCAST) doesn't support Linux and so I have to do configuartion to
> get interent connection to Linux. Would it be too complicated?
>
> Q1:
> I know that some people have a Linux box with firewall installed which
> is then networked to XP box. In that case, XP would not need firewall
> to use Interent, right?
>
> Q2:
> Since I will have Linux and XP in different hardrives of the same PC,
> I believe that I would need firewall installed for both operating
> systems, right?
>
>
> I am not in urgent need to use Interent through Linux (especially
> since I would have to learn to configure to get Interent connection
> myself since my ISP doesn't support) but I heard that it would be
> safer to do so. The main thing is that I need to be able to continue
> to learn Linux once my current Linux account from school expires by
> March 21. Also, I want to learn using Oracle with Linux aside from
> learning with XP.
> To download Oracle, I would need Internet connect in Linux too.
>
> Q3:
> As the frist step, my plan is to have Linux operating system available
> at home.
>
> If I were to get another hard drive, what size should I buy (I knwo
> the required size depend on the distros; I am asking what size SHOULD
> i get so that it won't become small soon for me as I plan to use
> Oracle with it and also more stuff later...
>
> Q4:
> Would ideal situation be getting a used PC from Ebay and get Linux
> installed. That way, later I can get Internet connected to it (put
> firewall on Linux box) and then network to XP box.
>
> At some point in the future, I plan to use a router before connect any
> pc (XP or Linux) directly. to Interent.
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