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: Re: LUG: LUG@NCSU InstallFest Registration Form for David Hoffman
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: Casey Dahlin <cjdahlin@ncsu.[redacted]>
Date
: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 18:24:59 -0500
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Difficulty varies with distro. Fedora/Redhat are pretty much a snap.
Shiny guis and pretty buttons. Debian is known to be a bit of a pain,
but I've heard its gotten better lately. Gentoo and Slackware are a tad
nerve-wracking for newer folks.
On Mon, 2005-11-28 at 14:37 -0500, David Hoffman wrote:
> Heather,
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> Yeah, I saw that about the date next semester. I’ve done a lot of
> reading about dual booting with windows and linux, and am afraid to do
> it myself and get stuff wrong.
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> Currently I dual boot Windows XP Pro SP1 and Windows XP Pro 64-bit
> Edition. I’ll probably have another box by the time spring rolls
> around, and I’ll want to dual boot MCE 2005 and whatever version of
> Linux you recommend on that machine. That computer will be just to
> mess around with.
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> Both of my video cards have dual monitor support, and both of my
> monitors have dual input support. So…I can be on my main machine,
> press the monitor input switch button on both monitors…and be on my
> other machine. I guess I’ll hafta keep another mouse and keyboard
> handy for when I do the switch. This is the goal of my setup—to have
> two functioning systems (one Linux one windows) on at all times and
> sharing the same displays and audio set-up (Logitech z680 5.1 Dolby
> Digital Surround).
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> I just need help with the Linux install—I don’t know if it’s as easy
> as installing windows from scratch.
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>
> Thanks for the quick response, and sorry I typed all that nonsense
> above this sentence!
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> Regards,
>
>
>
> David R. Hoffman
>
> NC State University
>
> XXX-650-2393
>
>
>
> ______________________________________________________________________
> From:lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted] [mailto:lug-owner@lists.ncsu.[redacted]] On
> Behalf Of Heather Heinz
> Sent: Monday, November 28, 2005 2:05 PM
> To: lug@lists.ncsu.[redacted]
> Subject: Re: LUG: LUG@NCSU InstallFest Registration Form for David
> Hoffman
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> David:
>
> Just to let you know, our next installfest should be about halfway
> through the spring semester. Updates at http://lug.ncsu.edu.
>
> Heather Heinz
> LUG@NCSU President
>
> On 11/28/05, drhoffman10is@gmail.[redacted] <drhoffman10is@gmail.[redacted] > wrote:
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> Name: David Hoffman
> E-Mail: drhoffman10is@gmail.[redacted]
> Distribution:
> Manufacturer: self
> Model Number/Name: DFI
> System Type: Desktop
> CPU: AMD 64 2800+ Socket 754
> Video Card: ATI 9600pro (AGP)
> Monitor: Dual 19in 1280x1024 resolution
> Sound Card: Audigy 2
> Ethernet Card: onboard
> Modem: none
> Printer: networked
>
> Comments:
> Interested in configuring a Dual-boot system. Operating systems would
> be a version of Linux and possibly Microsoft XP Professional 64-bit
> edition (I have a copy of this).
>
> I have multiple hard drives so there will be no need for
> partitioning. I want there to be one partition accessible from both
> windows and linux. I suppose this partition will have to be FAT
> because Linux doesn\'t do NTFS.
>
> Interested In:
> Dual Boot: on
> Adding A second IDE Drive:
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> Remote Address: 152.1.141.97
> HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1;
> SV1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)
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