Hi
Do you think it is possible to Ubuntu and XP, dual booted on an 8GB SSD?
Im running Ubuntu on my EeePC, but I would like to run XP for a few apps.
Simon
On Wed, Mar 16, 2011 at 11:12:57PM +0000, Simon Royal wrote:
Do you think it is possible to Ubuntu and XP, dual booted on an 8GB SSD?
Im running Ubuntu on my EeePC, but I would like to run XP for a few apps.
Yes, you can, another option would be to put a vm on the linux box and then install xp on that and run the apps from there?
Adam
On 16/03/11 23:12, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
Do you think it is possible to Ubuntu and XP, dual booted on an 8GB SSD?
Im running Ubuntu on my EeePC, but I would like to run XP for a few apps.
Can the Eee boot from a SD card ? Why not put one of the operating systems on that ? Otherwise 8GB is going to be getting a little tight.
If you do want to squeeze XP on there you are going to have to google about for the tricks to keep it in say under 4GB and still have it be able to do anything useful.
"How well will an OS run from SD card? I do have a 4GB SD card."
Depends on the card, some may actually be faster than the internal SSD or at least that appears to be the case with the Acer Aspire One I used to have.
"> Can you run Windows from a removeable drive and as I use Ubuntu more
than anything I would prefer to keep than on the internal SSD for > speed ideally.
.If not I am sure the EeePC can boot to SD, would grub be able to handle that though."
Yes if the Bios can handle booting from it then Grub will cope, in fact as long as grub is on the bootable partition it is even possible to get it to boot from things the bios cannot boot from in some cases. Where it goes wrong is when the sd reader is "speshil" and not supported by the bios in some sort of legacy mode grub understands (i.e. it doesn't appear as a bios disk and needs drivers loaded first) I dunno what the state is of the SD reader in the Eee but that could well be the case.
Googling about it seems mostly possible to get windows to boot from the Eee SD slot, if a little tricky
On 17/03/11 08:23, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
On 16/03/11 23:12, Simon Royal wrote:
Hi
Do you think it is possible to Ubuntu and XP, dual booted on an 8GB SSD?
Im running Ubuntu on my EeePC, but I would like to run XP for a few apps.
Can the Eee boot from a SD card ? Why not put one of the operating systems on that ? Otherwise 8GB is going to be getting a little tight.
If you do want to squeeze XP on there you are going to have to google about for the tricks to keep it in say under 4GB and still have it be able to do anything useful.
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