How To Make Dual Booting A (Bigger) Pain

the_phenom writes "Thinking of dual-booting your Windoze XP 17" Toshiba P25 laptop? Think again - this one 'uses a DVD with an already setup version of Windows XP Home and then transfers it to the notebook's hard drive,' preventing the normal setup procedure and thus, dual-booting." This reminds me of the unfriendly practice on some PC builders' parts of including an OS "backup" only on a hard-drive partition.

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Im sure Microsoft hasn't complained about this.

[Dr Reducto]

Im sure M$ likes this. First of all (main reason), they probably save a butt-load of money on tech support when n00bs who haven't RTFM mess up installation somehow(It's Windows for christ's sake! Not (Inset Linux Distro Here)!). Lastly, it is a strong discouragement to people who foolishly think that they OWN their computers and software. I mean, who needs a brain now? The computer will do all of our thinking from now on.

Completely retarded article.

[Bowie J. Poag]

If you've got a floppy, or any sort of bootable removable media whatsoever, dual-booting into Linux is possible.

Whats so hard about putting a floppy in this dreaded oh-so-evil laptop, and leaving it there? I mean, how often do *you* use floppies anymore?

Pointless article.

Re:Completely retarded article.

[Bowie J. Poag]

USB floppy.

Are you lazy, or stupid?

[thelizman]

1. Install your system from the DVD.
   
2. Use a hard drive partition utility like partition majic to resize the partition that Windoze is on.
   
3. Reboot the computer, and verify that shit is still working.
   
4. Reboot your computer with any half-assed distro in the drive.
   
5. Use the available utilty (fdisk, disk druid, whatever) to make the appropriate swap and root partition, as well as any other desired partitions, in the available free space.
   
6. Allow the installer to install the boot manager (Lilo, Grub...whatever).
   
7. Reboot, make sure shit it working on both sides.
   

Re:Devil's Advocate...sorta

[SuperDuG]

This was for Intel's Speedstep tech. This cuts the CPU down when the machine is idle in order to conserv on battery life. Mhz programs will read the CPU as half-speed, because your machine isn't doing anythign else...which leads to:

I even gave my modem number ... you could have looked up the specs quite easily and seen that it is a pIII non-speed step. This is not some "feature" to help out the heat, this is because the pIII overheats the machine and kills it. Reasearch before you claim someone is posting FUD, Toshiba is the only laptop manfacturer I know that has the audacity to throw a desktop processor into a laptop on so many occassions, check their satellite line if you don't believe me.

So nope, don't see a connection, not using a speed-step chip, hence the shady update to "fix" the problem. The chip was cut in HALF always, not just when it was idle or hot. Hence the lawsuit against toshiba.