Guidance needed

I have a Acer Dual-Core Vista contraption with one of those hidden recovery partitions that is accessible through hitting Alt+F10 at bootup. It has a 320MB SATA formatted with NTFS. Id like to use it to gain proficiency with 64Studio then give it to my Ma to store recipies when my new machine is ready. Have read about many issues regarding Linux+NTFS, dual booting, blowing out hidden partitions etc. so, is the following possible: 1. Install 64studio on a new (slave) harddrive. 2. Create a new volume on the master drive for Linux data, leaving the Vista and hidden partitions in tact. 3. Reliably set it up to dual boot using Grub, or EasyBSD or drive selection with BIOS config at bootup (need VPN access through Vista). 4. When finished, remove the slave drive, restore Vista (if blown), use the slave drive in my new machine. Also, what size drive is needed for the full 64Studio install (minus what is used for data)? Thanks in advance for any advice you can provide. I'm new to Linux, old to dos, PCs and PLCs.

apt-get install xserver-xorg-video-ati ??

I am getting a X300 card soon to try out the ATI install procedure. If (and when) I am successful I will post a ATI how to on the site. Should be done by end of next week! Cheers,

As you can imagine there are parties that stand to loose a lot of business if the world would realize that Linux is a mature platform, and that you can do most everything on it that you can do on any other platform. Not tho mention that it is generally more stable, and that bugs get fixed ON DEMAND and not on "service pack". This is why hardware manufacturers are "encouraged" to make it as hard as possible for us to get the stuff going. Just think Electric car, and you know what I am talking about. Well, for the time being we are the lucky ones. I'd rather pay myself (in time) than pay some big software house for defective software. Good Luck,

I'll try what is suggested in that thread. I found a driver on ATI's site for my card on Linux OS's, but I have no idea how to go about updating the driver. It's surprisingly difficult for me to locate info on how to do that. This is probably why not many people bother with Linux. But, I'm stubborn and I'll eventually figure it out.

Read this forum here and see if that works http://www.64studio.com/node/197 Gobby

CPU: Intel P4 3.4GHz Video: ATI Radeon X300 SE 128MB Mem: 1GB (2x512MB) DDR2 HDD: 160GB SATA Sound: Integrated Sigma Tel Audio NIC: Intel PRO/100 Hope that helps.

Can you please give your computer specs. Like SPU, sound card, video card, and ect... Gobby