dual booting?

thedude · #1 8th December 2005, 10:57 PM

This is just an observation I've made since I've joined the fedora community. It's not personal so I hope noone gets their drawers in a wad over it... I've noticed alot of people who dual boot the pc's with windows and fedora (I'm sure it goes for all other distros as well).
And I understand that alot of people only have one pc to use, but hey you can pick up a decent pc (pIII) really cheap these days, so why not have a dedicated pc just for fedora (or whatever your linux taste is). It just seems to me that having only one pc would be the only reason to dual boot (I imagine there are other reasons), but doesn't that add additional config problems? Just an observation...

firestorm · #2 9th December 2005, 12:01 AM

I dual boot FC3 and XP on my main HD and on another I run straight FC3. The reason dual booting and not 2 comps is to save money and why settle for a slower comp. I mean if you have a 3.2Ghz processor with alot of add on's and want to have XP on it and Fedora on a PIII, why settle for slower speed, especially at cost to you. Maybe I feel this way because I have never had config problems based on dual boot. Just my $.02.

-fire

thedude · #3 9th December 2005, 12:31 AM

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Originally Posted by firestorm

I dual boot FC3 and XP on my main HD and on another I run straight FC3. The reason dual booting and not 2 comps is to save money and why settle for a slower comp. I mean if you have a 3.2Ghz processor with alot of add on's and want to have XP on it and Fedora on a PIII, why settle for slower speed, especially at cost to you. Maybe I feel this way because I have never had config problems based on dual boot. Just my $.02.

-fire

I can understand that, definitely. I guess I'm a little biased since I have several pc's to do stuff with. Being retired and on a pretty tight budget right now, I haven't been able to get anything newer than a dell gx400 p4 1.4 (it's actually several years old now) that we use for the 'home' pc and I got a couple of dell pIII's 1.0ghz and a 700mhz to play with. Hopefully this coming year, I'll be able to get us a new one and then I can use the gx400 for my linux.

firestorm · #4 9th December 2005, 12:38 AM

Hey, if you've got the comps chillin', by all means use um' lol. I have 3 comps at my house, all P4's 1.6,2.4, and 3.2Ghz but only get to put Linux on the 2.4. Mom,dad, bro and sister still like XP. Take what I can get.

-fire

NovenTheHero · #5 9th December 2005, 12:42 AM

well, I dual boot becasue I spent alot of money on my alienware, and really dont need another computer at this time. Maybe in the future Ill get another computer to dedicate to Fedora, but right now I quite enjoy using my 2 200gb drives between the 2 OS's =)

Optimal Aurora · #6 30th December 2005, 06:21 AM

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Originally Posted by thedude

This is just an observation I've made since I've joined the fedora community. It's not personal so I hope noone gets their drawers in a wad over it... I've noticed alot of people who dual boot the pc's with windows and fedora (I'm sure it goes for all other distros as well).
And I understand that alot of people only have one pc to use, but hey you can pick up a decent pc (pIII) really cheap these days, so why not have a dedicated pc just for fedora (or whatever your linux taste is). It just seems to me that having only one pc would be the only reason to dual boot (I imagine there are other reasons), but doesn't that add additional config problems? Just an observation...

As the name 'Optimal Aurora' should imply, I am using an AMD64 bit system and you really can't get a goot powerful 3000+ AMD64 bit system cheap. But you can buy a 3400+ or 3700+ fairly cheap... I chose the 3400+...

Why 64 bit? Well, I'm currently not a developer or run any servers. But I do like to use Windows xp x64 and x86_64 version of Fedora and currently testing suse 10.0