Re: [opensuse] getting new laptop
If you want to reduce cost, try the Sun "virtual box" solution. I have the following configuration: Lenovo T60P, with the ATI video card OpenSuse11.0 as base OS Sun Virtual Box VMs- MS XP Pro x 2, MS Vista Also a second drive with SLED10,SP2 as base OS VMware workstation VMs- MS XP Pro x2 I tried the dual boot thing for a while, but the MBR was too touchy and ended up to be much to much trouble for that little convenience. Just my $.05 worth. Tony ... On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 17:55 -0800, John Andersen wrote:
kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote:
i will be buying a new laptop in a week or so.
In stage 1 I hope to run a dual boot system, some windoze version and then suse 10.3, probably 32 bit but that's not final, the 64 bit ver is not only faster, but it is approaching the 100% compatibility mark.
no, thanks, i will not try 11.0 or 11.1 yet, i need a kde that has *no* hooks to kde4 until at least kde 4.4 as they mark them, but let's not digress.
In stage 2 I hope to run suse 10.3 as the base system, then the plan is to load up vmware and run 2 or 3 virtual oss'es, and to include the "default" windoze partition as a vmware option.
The plan is to Buy a core-duo from Dell or ibm/lenovo. 2.4 ghz plus, 4 gb ram, 300-500 gb hard drive, wifi. since there will be graphics involved, i might even go to a 17" lcd. blue ray read a possibility, but definitely not a must have.
I am not scared of ati drivers, have installed a few with direct ati downloads (the trick really is to *reboot* right after running an aticonfig:)), so I ask the group what other pitfalls might I want to avoid.
thanks in advance,
d.
The biggest pitfall is dual boot itself.
Not that its not doable, its just flat un-necessary with Vmware, and a big pain in the neck. Every time I've ever set it up I end up just dumping it and running one of the OSs in a VM.
I especially warn you of using the actual HD windows partition as both a Virtual machine AND a native boot. Don't go there.
Either run Windows native and Linux in the VM, or nuke the partition and run Linux Native and windows in a VM.
Any windows license you get pre-installed by Dell will probably NOT be usable in a VM, because its a special OEM license which requires a specific hardware configuration.
So unless you are willing to run windows as your host OS, you would be better buying a Linux machine from Dell (or a no-os machine) and using any old Windows License you have laying around.
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