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If you choose to dual boot and run both Ubuntu 8.10 and Windows Vista, you run the risk of losing your data when a hard drive dies. To fix this, you can create a RAID10 setup. This tutorial will show you how to perform an Ubuntu and Windows dual boot with a RAID10 setup. Step 1: creating RAID set in BIOS After powering up the system, press CTRL-I to go to the Intel Matrix Storage Manager. Choose create RAID-volume. Choose a name, for example: diskset. Don't use numbers, some installation scripts in Ubuntu check for numbers in the disknames to determine if its a disk or a partition. I made the mistake to choose diskset1 as name. I wasn't able to rename the RAID volume, so I had to start all over! Choose RAID10, 64k stripe-size. Your RAID set is now created. Step 2: install Microsoft Windows This step is pretty straight-forward. Vista recoqnizes the RAID set and displays it as 1 single disk. During the install, create a partition for Windows and leave enough diskspace for ...

" Dual boot Slitaz and Windows " Follow these steps to dual boot your system with Slitaz and WIndows. 1. First create atleast two partitions on your hd, one for Slitaz and the other for Windows. You may be in need to create a partition for swap,probably if you have less memory. Just partition your HD. 2. Now install the Windows on the first partition. (It may be hda1). 3. Reboot your computer. 4. Now boot Slitaz and install it on the second partition (I may be hda2). 5. Reboot your computer. 6. Now your Slitaz will boot from the hardisk. Now to add the windows partition, add these lines to /boot/grub/menu.lst : title Windows rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive 7. Now open the terminal and type $ grub now a grub terminal will be opened. 1. Now you will need to set the root device. grub> root (hd0,1) 2. Now setup the grub. grub> setup (hd0) 3. Exit grub grub> quit 8. Reboot your system. You will see both the Slitaz and window...