On 10/02/2011 08:40 AM, Newbury wrote: > To Daniel Thurman > > Why fight with physical hardware limitations? > > Install Virtualbox (it's free) and create as many bootable virtuals as you want, each reachable without a physical hard-on-the-hardware re-boot. And from my experience the actual boot times of the virtuals are only about 50% of physical boot time for the same OS on the same hardware, ignoring BIOS initialization. Plus you can archive a copy of the vdi file for a near instant 're-install'. > > Geoff I did try VB when it came out at the time, but found it quite difficult figuring out all the nuances from partitions to networking and so on. I guess I was not ready to invest the time in Virt when I wanted to focus more on development. So, I stuck with what I am most familiar with. As it is, I have 3x2T hard drives, Drives 1 & 2 are manual semi-mirrors of each other and 3 is for staging and testing of new OSes. Managing these are a pita, but it works. I have had drive 1, or drive 1 partitions wiped out only to recover from drive 2 or drive 3. Were it a mirror, I would have lost both. As for the 3T hard disk, I was not willing to be a guinea pig, wasting time fiddling with the 2TB boundary, and unknown older OS nuances and to stick with what I am familiar with, so I ended up with a 2T drive with SATA-3 and a 64MB buffer for the same price as the 3TB drive. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
