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Cool I will keep that in mind If I ever do a dual boot with linux. Speaking of which can I have a dual boot on more than one drive?

You can, but if you do so I recommend unplugging your other drives during the installation so that you don't choose the wrong one

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I'm actually not sure yet.

I hear you can purchase them and deploy them into various locations.

Oh yeah somebody posted a Linus users manual a little while back

 

 

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Oh yeah somebody posted a Linus users manual a little while back

I posted a slick manual last night lol

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Cool I will keep that in mind If I ever do a dual boot with linux. Speaking of which can I have a dual boot on more than one drive? 

Yup. I made a post about dual booting and I asked this question.

The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.

Only Abate, Axe, and Wobbles can save us.

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Yup. I made a post about dual booting and I asked this question.

Cool I will need to do that then.

 

 

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Cool I will keep that in mind If I ever do a dual boot with linux. Speaking of which can I have a dual boot on more than one drive? 

AFAIK you'll have to open the boot manager when you want to boot into the alternate drives OS if you do it that way, which isn't hard it's just pressing one of the function buttons when you boot up.. I think most bios's use F11 now? I haven't used it in quite a while so to be honest I forgot which function key it was. Sometimes it'll ask you which one to boot depending on the installation, but I prefer to be safe and unplug all the drives I don't want to install my second OS on and therefore keep my bootloader on windows intact and not change it. (this is my preferred way, else you can replace windows bootloader but then when you uninstall linux you'll need to fix your bootloader which is a pain)

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AFAIK you'll have to open the boot manager when you want to boot into the alternate drives OS if you do it that way, which isn't hard it's just pressing one of the function buttons when you boot up.. I think most bios's use F11 now? I haven't used it in quite a while so to be honest I forgot which function key it was. Sometimes it'll ask you which one to boot depending on the installation, but I prefer to be safe and unplug all the drives I don't want to install my second OS on and therefore keep my bootloader on windows intact and not change it. (this is my preferred way, else you can replace windows bootloader but then when you uninstall linux you'll need to fix your bootloader which is a pain)

It's f10, some guys still use DEL

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It's f10, some guys still use DEL

thanks for the correction. The guys who use DEL have to take the long way inside the bios  <_<  why don't they just learn how to press a function key?

 

By the way, I love this quote of yours: "The best way to learn about technology is to break it, embrace it, and fix it. That's how I learned."

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AFAIK you'll have to open the boot manager when you want to boot into the alternate drives OS if you do it that way, which isn't hard it's just pressing one of the function buttons when you boot up.. I think most bios's use F11 now? I haven't used it in quite a while so to be honest I forgot which function key it was. Sometimes it'll ask you which one to boot depending on the installation, but I prefer to be safe and unplug all the drives I don't want to install my second OS on and therefore keep my bootloader on windows intact and not change it. (this is my preferred way, else you can replace windows bootloader but then when you uninstall linux you'll need to fix your bootloader which is a pain)

So I can I should just unplug the drive(s) I don't want Linux to install too?

 

 

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So I can I should just unplug the drive(s) I don't want Linux to install too?

that is correct, so basically just have one drive plugged in (being the one you want linux on) and install it.

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F10 or F12, depends on the board

Mine is either F12 or delete can't remember which but I think delete opens the boot override menu which for reason I had to use to install windows since my computer didn't read the windows install disk as a valid OS.

 

 

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that is correct, so basically just have one drive plugged in (being the one you want linux on) and install it.

Leaving your optical drive connected is safe, just so you know.

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thanks for the correction. The guys who use DEL have to take the long way inside the bios  <_<  why don't they just learn how to press a function key?

 

By the way, I love this quote of yours: "The best way to learn about technology is to break it, embrace it, and fix it. That's how I learned."

Thanks man, I may decide to move the embrace part to the first one because it doesn't make sense the way I have it.

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Leaving your optical drive connected is safe, just so you know.

 

Yeah, I know, where else will he be installing from? aside from if he uses a bootable USB which I totally forgot existed when I posted that.

Thanks man, I may decide to move the embrace part to the first one because it doesn't make sense the way I have it.

actually it does make sense. you break it, then you embrace the parts to see what da hell is going on dere and then you fix it. Well that's how I figured it.. Or with code it would be break it, learn the entire language (embrace it) and then fix it.

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Thanks man, I may decide to move the embrace part to the first one because it doesn't make sense the way I have it.

I think I will stick to wikipedia. But maybe I will break it than have to fix it.

 

 

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Yeah, I know, where else will he be installing from? aside from if he uses a bootable USB which I totally forgot existed when I posted that.

actually it does make sense. you break it, then you embrace the parts to see what da hell is going on dere and then you fix it. Well that's how I figured it.. Or with code it would be break it, learn the entire language (embrace it) and then fix it.

the first time I installed ubuntu I used a bootable USB.

 

 

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Yeah how is this bad though? I mean is it because he wanted a new PC that may be because A: he uses monitor that is higher than 60hz or B: he can run games 60FPS but he may not be able to run with decent graphics settings.

Because he doesn't need to spen £500 on a new pc when he already runs the games he wants to play at 60FPS

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Thanks man, I may decide to move the embrace part to the first one because it doesn't make sense the way I have it.

 

I think that's how most of us learned. I remember one I had a small cheapo radio that stopped working. I took it apart and when I couldn't fix it threw it away. A few minuets later I hear a sound coming out of the garbage where I threw it away. The thing was half taken apart and was WORKING! I was completely baffled.

The year is 20XX. Everyone plays Fox at TAS levels of perfection. Because of this, the winner of a match depends solely on port priority. The RPS metagame has evolved to ridiculous levels due to it being the only remaining factor to decide matches.

Only Abate, Axe, and Wobbles can save us.

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Yeah, I know, where else will he be installing from? aside from if he uses a bootable USB which I totally forgot existed when I posted that.

actually it does make sense. you break it, then you embrace the parts to see what da hell is going on dere and then you fix it. Well that's how I figured it.. Or with code it would be break it, learn the entire language (embrace it) and then fix it.

Hmm, never thought about it this way.

Guess I will fix it back.

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the first time I installed ubuntu I used a bootable USB.

well then it just wouldn't matter if you had the optical drive in or not :P

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Because he doesn't need to spen £500 on a new pc when he already runs the games he wants to play at 60FPS

But what if he needs something that is upgraded more frequently like a hard drive. Or he doesn't like the way his case looks so he is getting a new one. 

 

 

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Hmm, never thought about it this way.

Guess I will fix it back.

you might have when you were typing it but then forgot >_< I know stuff like that happens to me.

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well then it just wouldn't matter if you had the optical drive in or not :P

Yeah I thought I would use it a lot more often then I do apart from installing windows I have used it a grand total of once.

 

 

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