Replacing Optical with HD/SSD in SA/SB/SC/SD series

[lazybee]

^ I would agree. Try GRUB on the SSD and it should redirect to a different drive with ease.

[thelibran]

I waited till ubuntu 11.10 was released. found out 11.10 dont show enuf installation option so had to install 10.04 first to get the MBR options and installed MBR to another usb stick. it worked fine on 10.04 but when i updated to 11.10, i couldnt find any option to select where to install mbr. So it went into my ssd and it does work fine. Grub shows all the lousy list which i always hate. now i am curious if i can transfer GRUB to a USB and restore my SSD MBR so windows will boot naturally and only when i need linux, i need to plug in the usb and boot from it.

[lazybee]

That might work, but GRUB can be a bit fussy. Try BURG. With Burg-manager you can make a wonderful looking option screen, with minimal hassle. All from the GUI in Ubuntu!
I can point you towards more info if you want.

[thelibran]

i tried to install the burg this morning but it simply wont start. Guess gotta wait a while to let them build the ocelot repo. am already getting a feeling that 11.10 is lousy like 11.04 and lost its linux charm in the struggle to make it look like osx. i might just remove the whole thing and restore my original mbr if it continue to irritate me and wait for fedora16 nd see how it feels like.

thanks for the recommendations anyway.

[TeamFTL]

how much power will the laptop use when with the extra hard disk? any appreciable decrease in battery life?

[lazybee]

i tried to install the burg this morning but it simply wont start. Guess gotta wait a while to let them build the ocelot repo. am already getting a feeling that 11.10 is lousy like 11.04 and lost its linux charm in the struggle to make it look like osx. i might just remove the whole thing and restore my original mbr if it continue to irritate me and wait for fedora16 nd see how it feels like.

thanks for the recommendations anyway.

Agh..it does tend to happen. Last I tried it was with 11.04. Either way, it should be possible soon.

[lazybee]

how much power will the laptop use when with the extra hard disk? any appreciable decrease in battery life?

I've failed to notice any difference in power consumption thus far. If you intend on running dual HDD and no SSD then the consumption may impact battery life. Otherwise, with an SSD and HDD you should be very close to stock battery life. If using the drive as storage and only accessing it once in a while you will find that it is idling most often and draws negligible amounts of power.

[thelibran]

I've failed to notice any difference in power consumption thus far. If you intend on running dual HDD and no SSD then the consumption may impact battery life. Otherwise, with an SSD and HDD you should be very close to stock battery life. If using the drive as storage and only accessing it once in a while you will find that it is idling most often and draws negligible amounts of power.

is there some place i can set the power option for the second hdd without affecting the ssd?

am gonna wait till burg for 11.10 is released. since I stay inside windows for weeks without a reboot, its easier.

[lazybee]

To the best of my knowledge, and I have tried diligently, I cannot find any option or setting that would allow separate control over the second HDD.

As another option to your current dual boot setup, have you considered WUBI? I've been using it for the last few hours with Win 7 and 11.10 and have found it to run very smoothly.

[thelibran]

i jus noticed that my batterlife on balanced mode came down to 3hrs since the hdd on 100% charge. used to go abt 4-5 hrs. mostly when i playbak movies from the hdd or download torrents on to the hdd.

hvnt tried WUBI yet. will sure give it a shot. had it on vmware but i somehow dont enjoy the feel of it.