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I have used Linux before and it does not seem to work well on 64 bit and dual booting. I have never tried booting linux from a pendrive I have vista ultimate 64 bit os 8 gigas of RAM and two HDDs 300 and a 500. I have a 16 giga pendrive will that work its HP.
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Posted 12 February 2011 - 10:03 AM
A 32 bit linux os should work just fine on a 64 bit system even in a dual boot setup.
It will just not see/use all of the memory.
As for the pendrive - YES - that should work .
What Linux Distro are you going to try ?
I presently have a dual boot setup and both my Linux and Win XP SP3 work very well - although it is a 32 bit system.
It will just not see/use all of the memory.
As for the pendrive - YES - that should work .
What Linux Distro are you going to try ?
I presently have a dual boot setup and both my Linux and Win XP SP3 work very well - although it is a 32 bit system.
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 02:17 AM
In my experience, you cannot install a 32 bit operating system on the same hard drive as a 64 bit Operating system and expect them to dual boot properly. If your using dual hard drives or, like you say a pen drive, it should work ok, but the two dont in my experience work when trying to install a 32 bit linux OS on a partition with a hard drive containing 64 bit windows. I have however, noticed the linuxs that I have had the most luck running 64 bit are OpenSuSe, and Ubuntu. They may be worth a try if you havent already.
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Posted 13 February 2011 - 04:57 AM
John79, on 11 February 2011 - 02:52 PM, said:
I have used Linux before and it does not seem to work well on 64 bit and dual booting . . .
If 64-bit is desired,
a) Do not dual-boot -- install another dedicated hard drive, instead;
b) since Linux is not new to you and 64-bit is preferred, I suggest you try either
i) aptosid as put forth here
& downloaded here or
ii) salix64-13.1.2-xfce
Have fun! & Best wishes!
This post has been edited by pane-free: 13 February 2011 - 04:57 AM
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