How to dual boot Linux & XP on the Eee 900
With a limited 4 GB of SSD memory on my Asus Eee PC 701, I can generally only have one operating system at a time installed. Sure, I could boot XP from an SD card or something, but I’m talking about having more than one OS installed in the main storage area. The next generation Eee PCs, the 900- and 1000- series have a little more breathing room when it comes to storage thanks to 12- and 20-GB capacities.
The folks over at PC Magazine just put together a fantastic step-by-step tutorial showing how to set up a dual-boot Eee PC for Linux and Windows XP on the 900 model. The same steps should generally apply if you grab a 1000 Eee PC too. You’ll need an optical drive, an XP disk (duh!), and the Asus support disk that’s included with your Eee… gotta have all the drivers, you know! If you’ve never ventured into dual-boot territory, it’s not as daunting as you think and with a well-documented guide like this, even most novices can get through it. Look at it this way: if the process fails, you can just factory restore your Eee PC in 90 seconds and you’re back to where you started!
This would be fantastic if it would actually work..
The second drive 8GB/ 16GB ) on Eee PC 900 is too slow for OS use.
So don’t do this, it has been proofed nonworking by many users.
Yup, well aware that the secondary SSD tests slower than the primary and it is shame. I’d try it and see before I issued a global “don’t do this” though. What might not be acceptable performance to you or I might be fine for a casual user that wants XP from time to time. If I had a 900, I’d probably flip-flop the operating systems though. I’d put XP on the faster, 4 GB SSD drive and Linux on the other.
yep, I’d not jump the gun either, but this issue is tested so many times with different kind of users. not even one user has been happy to run XP on the 2nd drive..
I have used XP on way slower ssdrives with much better results
It’s not the speed alone, it’s about the chips as well.. different flash on 2nd drive than on the first.
I would not say “nonworking” if it was just a bit slow. It is very slow and unstable.
What about installing XP on a external harddrive via USB 2.0? How would the speed be? And would it work? Keeping the Linux on the internal 4 GB SD.
Yes, can you install Wndowson an external USB Drive and ave it work? keeping Linux on the internal???