dslfool
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Posted: Nov. 29 2005,22:38 |
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I dual boot DSL 1.5 (& 2.0 soon!) with Windows XP Pro on a Toshiba notebook and it works fine for me. My understanding is that Windows must reside on the first partition on the drive, so I installed XP first on the first partition, then created ext2 and swap partitions for DSL, then from the live CD did a Grub frugal install from the DSL menu and made sure I answered "Yes" when the script asked if Windows was installed on the first partition.
Re speed, running DSL from the frugal install on this notebook (600MHz PIII, 320MB RAM, 4200RPM? HD) is somewhat faster than running it from the live CD, and even faster when run in RAM (with the "TORAM" startup option), but I don't think there's any speed difference based on whether or not Windows is also installed on the HD (other than having to take the time to make the OS selection from the GRUB menu).
Re embedded, I'll leave that to those that would know...
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Toshiba Portege 7200CTe notebook, 600MHz PIII, 8GB CF as HD, 320MB RAM
DSL 4.2.5 (frugal toram)
...and the picture is of Fuad Ramses from the film "Blood Feast".
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