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Steam OS Beta alongside Windows?

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Currently the steam beta does not support dual boot.

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I have Windows 7 installed and i want to try out the BETA of Steam OS but I'm not sure if I can install it without destroying my Windows Installation. I know its beta software so i'm a little worried and I could not get it to finish the installation in a VM when it rebooted it was a blank screen.

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Installing Steam OS completely formats your harddrive and doesnt give you any choice in the matter.

 

So doing this ^ would not be viable. You could always buy another harddrive and unplug your windows harddrive while you install steam os.

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So... Why don't you give a more detailed explanation?

Because im not insanely good with linux, and the expert installation for steamOS. I just know that it can be defiantly done. Also how i explained it pretty much anyone could do it.This is also a viable option. I did this, "You could always buy another harddrive and unplug your windows harddrive while you install steam os."

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yea,,,,,

this is going to mess up alot of people when they search for this

anyone know if AMD drivers for DEbian  woork well?

things like this annoy me on the forum. I have no idea. But i guess you could install them through the terminal seen as though its based off debian. Have a look through http://www.reddit.com/r/steamos, theres a ton of people messing around with it all.

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yea,,,,,

this is going to mess up alot of people when they search for this

anyone know if AMD drivers for DEbian  woork well?

Will be testing shortly, they come packaged with the OS

 

Also all linux systems come preloaded with support for dual boot through either grub or syslinux. 

At this time you do need an entire spare HDD but you can set dual boot up after you have installed.

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Will be testing shortly, they come packaged with the OS

 

Also all linux systems come preloaded with support for dual boot through either grub or syslinux. 

At this time you do need an entire spare HDD but you can set dual boot up after you have installed.

tell me how it goes

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tell me how it goes

So far so good

The steamOS repos are really lacking so I've added the debian wheezy repo in, needed it for basic things like zip support O.o

anyway about to install a full AMD graphics driver package as the one that comes packaged is only the basic one

Arch Linux on Samsung 840 EVO 120GB: Startup finished in 1.334s (kernel) + 224ms (userspace) = 1.559s | U mad windoze..?

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So far so good

The steamOS repos are really lacking so I've added the debian wheezy repo in, needed it for basic things like zip support O.o

anyway about to install a full AMD graphics driver package as the one that comes packaged is only the basic one

wow ok. i think ill hold in till steam egts their shit together. its funny cause even when steam OS is fully released i may just put on a different distro with all the gaming repos of steam OS. i dont think its supposed to be a full featured OS but more of a cosole OS

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wow ok. i think ill hold in till steam egts their shit together. its funny cause even when steam OS is fully released i may just put on a different distro with all the gaming repos of steam OS. i dont think its supposed to be a full featured OS but more of a cosole OS

 

It does have a full desktop enviroment installed (gnome) which they will need to leave in It seems, so it can be used as a desktop machine

 

Additionally AMD graphics drivers installed and running fine.

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