Razzle_Dazzle Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Working on my G5 mod, setting up a budget for the hardware going with an I5 quad core, Gigabyte motherboard, 1666Mhz DDR3 Ram (6Gb), 1 Tb (split 500gb, 500gb) WD Sata harddrive, Nvidia 650TI graphic card. Purpose of the build is for studing and understanding Mac build But now I am working on Ubuntu/linux builds Thinking of KDE with the build a 64 byte version might do a dual boot system but I heard there are some complication with the boot master. None the less would like an option to weight out which one would go well with the system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 The one you have with i5 and so on, it can run KDE, but I think you get 2 separate hard drives then it is easy to work with one hard drive partition into 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzle_Dazzle Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 thank you for posting, I have already installed KDE on a Psata (laptop) harddrive, 230Gb. I have a power adapter for Psata to Sata that fits into a standard desktop I will go that route for sure then. It will be less complicated, I will split the 1tb but I do not know what partition format to use. I want to share data in between so I can tranfer data between OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 Fat can has file in it but limit less than 4 GB, available to all OS. I have a network share drive machine (window and linux but not pay attention to osx) than it avaibale to all os( full control). So if you have a spare box, put it to samba file server. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Razzle_Dazzle Posted December 22, 2014 Author Share Posted December 22, 2014 Thank you once again, sadly I do not have a spare box (external or HTPC) I guess I will have to require one later on I know this sounds off topic but it corresponds with formatting FAT file system. HP has a USB format program that will by pass the rated 4Gb limitation. I used the same Psata to backup my PS3 file to format the harddrive, Since the PS3 system will not allow NTFS harddrive to connect and be used I had to use the HP usb format program to format the harddrive into FAT32 the program also allows you to format to fat and bypass the limitation Not sure if I will be able to do the same over 100Gb but I am willing to try. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kvonlinee Posted December 22, 2014 Share Posted December 22, 2014 That over 4 gb limitations is great thing. I am learning on this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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