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L0oniX

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1. I wouldn't ever use a non-primary partition for an OS......

Reply to eppur_se_muova (Original post)

Wed Nov 26, 2014, 04:50 PM

Nov 2014

and those SanDisk 64GB Extreme USB 3.0 Flash Drive are great for trying out OS's.

Ebay cheap ($65 new) Western Digital Black 500gb Hard Drive 3.5", SATA 6, 7200 rpm, WD5003AZEX, 5 year warranty

Running Mint Mate 64bit on one, Ubuntu 14 lts 64bit on another and Debian 7.7.0 64bit on the 3rd one ...plus Mint Cinnamon 64bit on a 64gb flash drive, Knopix on another 8gb flash for fixing shit and a Grub2 rescue 8gb flash ...oh yeah ...and Winsux XP sp3 on Virtualbox for when I need to run shit that uses activex like security cams monitoring

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I wouldn't ever use a non-primary partition for an OS...... L0oniX Nov 2014 #1