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Brandon_R

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Registered: 2011-08-22

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Is this possible? Partitions

SSD 1 - 16 gb root, var, boot - Arch
SSD 2 - 16 GB - widows 7
SATA 2 tb - home

At what part of the installation would i be given the options to set up my hard drives like that above?

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Is this possible? Partitions

Not sure if 16GB is enough for Win7.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Be … Hard_Drive

volf.tomas

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Registered: 2011-08-27

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

16 GB is not enough for win7

satanselbow

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

Not sure if 16GB is enough for Win7.

16GB is plenty enough to "install W7" - to run a full suite of apps / games / data / yada-yada... nope. Base install of W7 should come in sub 8GB

RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

Posts: 186

Re: Is this possible? Partitions

From Microsoft site:

Windows 7 system requirements
If you want to run Windows 7 on your PC, here's what it takes:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

I figure they work that out by never installing Office though. I would be very surprised if you could install W7 with anything useful in less than 40Gb. DSL it isn't that's for sure!

Edit: I wonder how W7 compares to Linux on a 1Ghz x86?

Last edited by RichAustin (2011-08-27 20:09:37)

karol

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

Edit: I wonder how W7 compares to Linux on a 1Ghz x86?

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'Linux' is just the kernel. You can use some lite distro on a 1998 Pentium-based computer, I suppose.
Arch is like Legos: you get what you build from the available packages.

On a 1.5 GHz Sempron & Celeron (the weakest CPUs I have around), Arch is much taster and lighter (less GBs needed to install) than WinXp (no idea about Win 7), but I'm using just dwm and no virus scanners on Linux :-)
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Last edited by karol (2011-08-27 20:16:56)

RichAustin

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From: Wakefield, Yorkshire, England

Registered: 2011-07-27

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

Good point Karol about virus scanners. I've noticed the performance on XP and W7 drops as soon as you install anti-virus. Interestingly I've also noticed that performance dips on XP after you install anything at all, let alone anti-virus.
I have a couple of old laptops somewhere, Samsung I think. Zenwalk runs pretty well on them, and I tried XP but it was not fun at all! I guess I would have thought it was pretty good when the laptops were new of course.

gazj

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

I know xp is awful!  The system requirements must have gone up on every service pack.  I remember running it on 128mb of ram back in early 2000's.  Now it is unbearable unless you have over 512mb of ram.  What happened to it?

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bernarcher

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

Ahem! This really gets out of hands.
Please get back to Arch and provide the OP a suitable answer.

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Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

The day your winsxs folder in Win7 explodes, you will beg for >50GB.

Brandon_R

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Registered: 2011-08-22

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Re: Is this possible? Partitions

I think a 64 gb ssd should be enough for windows and some apps. I can't wait for a couple years when ssds will be cheap like today's hdds