Hi, Dana. I am carbon copying my reply to the list so that others can choose to look at it if they choose. I got mine from: http://www.tigerdirect.com Go to the search field and enter Trios, activate the search button, and it should bring up the Romtec Trios drive selecter right away. It just did for me. You will find that many prices they have on computer parts is much better than you find at Best Buy, Comp USA, and other local computer shops. ----- Original Message ----- From: Dana <dana@xxxxxxxxxxx> To: Thomas Ward <tward at bright.net> Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 5:05 AM Subject: Re: a ton of questions > Hi there, I saw your post on the list, and was wondering where I can get > one of those. > > On Sat, 30 Dec 2000, Thomas Ward wrote: > > > Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 23:59:01 -0500 > > From: Thomas Ward <tward at bright.net> > > Reply-To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > Subject: Re: a ton of questions > > > > Hi, Gregory. If you are truely interrested in having a multiple Operating > > System machine you may want to concidder something called the Trio drive > > selecter. I found it the best thing to use when programming under multiple > > Operating Systems. > > What this Trio does is hook up to your primary hard drive controler and you > > can install up to three hard drives to the Trio Selecter. > > I am a college student like you learning programming, and how my system is > > setup I can press a button on the Trio for Drive A, and my system will load > > drive A with Windows Millennium and I can do work with Visual C++ Visual > > Basic, and so on. When I push B on the Trio the selecter switches to the > > second drive in my computer, and boots directly into Red Hat 7.0. > > Then, you stillhave an option for a third drive which can be used as a beta > > drive to test applications you built, or have other distros of Linux, or so > > on. > > While lilo can manage multiple operating systems it has its draw backs. For > > example if you reinstall Windows it will over write the mbr, and having > > several operating systems eats away at drive space. Now hard drives are > > really cheap, and you can have 10 and 15 gig drives for less than $100.00 > > depending on where you look. > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > >
