On Wed, Nov 09, 2005 at 10:27:54AM -0000, Bob Dove wrote:
upgrading the outlaws?) Currently, because Photoshop CS demanded it W2K (which is absolutely with no exceptions they flakiest O/S I've used - and I started with CP/M! Fond memory says W3.11 was the best.
Weird, my experience was that Win2k was by far the best OS Microsoft every released. It had all the benefits of plug & pray (but matured so it actually worked) and none of the teletubby add-ons of Windows XP and had the welcome addition of a security model.
it named F: I wonder how long before I have to repeat the exercise? Now come the question; with multiple hard drives installed, can Linux install and boot from a second hard drive D:? Having windoze and Linux in separate partitions on the same hard drive made me give up on Linux.
In answer to your question, Linux can boot quite happily off a 2nd Hard disk (or 3rd or 4th etc.) as long as it can find the bootloader. Your description of the other problems (it confused me a bit) sounds like you have a hardware problem or that the Bios setup is perhaps somehow wrong. I'd perhaps stop taking the machine to PC World (or whichever store you are taking it too) and try a local independant shop to get it sorted as it shouldn't take very long for someone who knows what they are doing to sort it out. (or bring the machine to an Alug kitmeet)
Reading these mails - your comments re operating/installing Linux is absolutely frightening. A 'simple' installation CD that injects Linux onto a hard drive and which comes up with a desktop 'just like windoze' (or Mac O/S) is all 99% of PC owners want. We don't want to know about command lines - just icons on the desktop just like the original Digital Research GUI that all other O/S desktops have copied!
Installing Linux isn't difficult tbh, and doesn't /really/ involve any command lines. What tends to make installing Linux "difficult" is the prescence of Windows on the computer already.... and of course have you ever tried installing Windows onto a computer which has Linux already installed without Windows killing Linux? The only bit that people get trouble is with the partitioning of disks, and of course the Windows disk partitioner isn't any better than any command line Linux tool (like cfdisk) to be entirely fair it is far far worse! To install Ubuntu you can just point it at a computer and say "use the entire disk" (same with Debian Sarge iirc) and you get a few other questions (like, which country are you in, what is your keyboard layout etc.) and it installs in far less time than Windows will (without the added "fun" of downloading all your Windows drivers+updates+software you essentially need).
Thanks Adam