Looking for dual booting advice
Hi I'm going to dual boot WinXP and Linux (?) from a single HD. Although I've researched this quite thoroughly, I'm surprised that there is no simple step-by-step instruction available. In addition, there seems to be two distinct schools of thought as to whether Linux should be installed BEFORE or AFTER Windows. In any event, my intention is to install Linux after WinXP (which is already there).
I have Asus A7N8X mobo Athlon CPU Debian unstable box. For some time I have following problem(s): - when I restart, after OS finishes shutting down and "restarting" is written, my monitor goes...
I would appreciate if somebody can direct me to a link which might clarify some of the issues involved in this. I would particularly like to understand a little more about the whole boot loader-MBR thing. For example, it seems to be stressed in many of the articles I read to avoid the Linux boot loader installing into the MBR. OK, but how?
Although I have tried a few of the Linux LiveCDs, I'm still unclear as to which Linux flavor to install on the HD. My needs are very simple (OOo, Media Player and Internet are the only essentials) and I would appreciate advice as to which is likely to suit my situation as outlined above.
My Linux installation crashed this morning . . . not yet sure if's a CPU, power supply, or a hard disk failure. Basically it hung. When I rebooted the computer it seems to work, but hung again after...
TIA Paul
Dell 4550 Desktop WinXP Home SP2 CPU P4, 2.53 GHz 1.0 GB RAM Int HD 80 GB ntfs, non-parbreastioned Ext HD 160 GB ntfs, 3 parbreastions Ext HD 250 GB ntfs, 4 parbreastions
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