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Win2k and Linux on same machine?

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I am running a Win2k Pro. machine at home(P4@1.5Mhz,384RDRAM) , would it be possible to put RedHat Linux 7.1 on it? I didn't know if the two OS's would be ok on the same drive.
I have also heard that partitioning your drive causes a lot of slow down when gaming, is that true? Trying to get all the info I can before I do it.
Thanks for the help.
 
Yes, it is possible. I dont know why it would cause a slow-down, but Im not a gamer so I dont really care. Never heard it before though. I just think dual-booting is a bad idea in general.
 
Nope, I run 2kpro and Mandrake on the same drive. My games work flawlessly. I would advise you to try out different linux distros though, my personal experience with red hat is that it sucks.
 
I think that whoever told you that partitioning a drive slows games down is a moron. It doesn't make any damn sense. Dual booting is kind of lame, I mean, I have done it with linux, but I always found myself using windows (I'm sorry everyone) all the time and just remote shelling into my router/server where I could chat on IRC or whatever with my linux box. If you want to learn linux, get yourself an old P100 or something and install it on that, set it up as a router or something, I mean, if you really want to learn. You'll probably find that you don't use the linux partition very much if you do decide to dual boot becaues comfy windows (again, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry) is right there. Like, linux can be pretty hard to get set up if you don't know what you're doing.
You can dual boot though if you chose too and partitioning your drive won't make any difference in performance, you'll just find that it doesn't take as long to defrag c: as it used to. Use something like partition magic.
 
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