Re: LUG: LUG@NCSU InstallFest Registration Form for David Hoffman - Mon, 28 Nov 2005 14:37:18 -0500

Heather,

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.

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.

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).

I just need help with the Linux install—I don’t know if it’s as easy as installing windows from scratch.

Thanks for the quick response, and sorry I typed all that nonsense above this sentence!

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

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:

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)