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Discussion in 'Software' started by zxspectrum, Aug 14, 2007.

  1. zxspectrum

    zxspectrum Terabyte Poster Forum Leader Gold Member

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    With me getting this new laptop, whats the chance of having a tri boot system

    ie vista, xp and a popular linux os??

    Vista as its thew new one, xp to keep familiarity and linux so that ive got some experience of that OS

    Not too sure if ill do it , but is it possible


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  2. BosonMichael
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    You can multiboot as many OSes as you want, provided you have enough partitions on the hard disk. :)
     
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    What about Virtual PC? You can then run as many systems as you want, you may need 400000000GB of RAM though! :biggrin
     
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    yup tri boot is totally do-able, what distibrution of Linux you gonna use ?

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  5. zxspectrum

    zxspectrum Terabyte Poster Forum Leader Gold Member

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    The linux distro i dont know, but something that i can use and say to an employer that i know of it etc ?? thats if they use linux .

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  6. Mr.Cheeks

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    what the other said... i'd use virtual px/vmware rather than partitioning the drives
     
  7. grim

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    if you're a linux n00b try ubuntu

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