My brother's PC

Post #25,026 by nking 1/21/02 6:50:16 PM Reply	My brother's PC he has tons of RAM, either 512M or 1024M, shouldn't be a problem. He is getting a Geforce 64M AGP video card soon. But I guess the one that is emulated is not that good, eh? Won't run Everquest, will it? Does XP need to be installed in its own partition, or like NT/2000, can it be installed on the old OS drive and then dual boot to the old OS? If so, then this might work for him. I'm still looking for the OS/2 and Linux solutions running Everquest via ODIN, WINE, WINEX, etc. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #25,073 by altmann 1/22/02 3:59:51 AM Reply	Re: My brother's PC Yeah, the emulated video card is a 4MB S3 Trio 32/64. Good for basic 2D and not much else. I don't think VMWare emulates 3D either. The XP install was very similar to the W2K install in terms of choosing partition/file system so I imagine one could dual boot in the same manner as with W2K. I haven't done a dual boot setup since NT 3.51 so others here may know more about any current gotchas. -- Chris Altmann
Post #25,079 by CRConrad 1/22/02 5:23:17 AM Reply	Why do you think those two are opposites? Norm: Does XP need to be installed in its own partition, or like NT/2000, can it be installed on the old OS drive and then dual boot to the old OS? Well, if it's anything like Windows NT or 2000, both: Install it to its own partition, AND dual-boot. In fact, wouldn't it be EASIER to achieve a dual-boot setup, if you kept each OS in its own partition (in stead of having them step all over each other's configurations)? Christian R. Conrad The Man Who Knows Fucking Everything
Post #25,083 by static 1/22/02 5:33:23 AM Reply	It would be easier, yes. Unfortunately, Microsoft OS's have a bad habit of expecting to control the first active primary partition on the first HDD. I seem to remember NT v3 was actually rather lenient in that area, but newer versions are less so. Wade. "All around me are nothing but fakes Come with me on the biggest fake of all!"
Post #25,084 by CRConrad 1/22/02 5:38:35 AM Reply	W2K seems pretty cool with being on both C: and F:
Post #25,174 by nking 1/22/02 5:18:58 PM Reply	Yes but my brother's hard drive is one big 30Gig partition. It would be easier if it installed on the same partition and dual booted. Or else I have to RRR, or get a partition shrinker program. I lost my Partition Magic disk when my other brother borrowed it and never returned it. "Will code Visual BASIC for cash."
Post #25,180 by Steve Lowe 1/22/02 5:38:01 PM Reply	fips Get fips. Comes with Mandrake, worked on my system flawlessly. Get it [link\|http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/\|here], or get a Mandrake install CD and run it to the point of partitioning the drive. ----- Steve

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