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Operating Systems Linux Installing linux with windows vista Post 302203179 by nickdba on Friday 6th of June 2008 07:51:55 PM

06-06-2008

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You mean to say that connecting my ext HDD and reboot to by setting the bios to boot from the ext HDD and install linux on it.

Will windows boot automatically without any problems if I remove ext HDD and if I need to use Linux I can plugin and restart the OS and set the bios to boot from ext HDD.

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uuid_compare

UUID_COMPARE(3) 						    Libuuid API 						   UUID_COMPARE(3)

NAME

       uuid_compare - compare whether two UUIDs are the same

SYNOPSIS

       #include <uuid/uuid.h>

       int uuid_compare(uuid_t uu1, uuid_t uu2)

DESCRIPTION

       The uuid_compare function compares the two supplied uuid variables uu1 and uu2 to each other.

RETURN VALUE

       Returns	an  integer  less  than, equal to, or greater than zero if uu1 is found,  respectively, to be lexigraphically less than, equal, or
       greater than uu2.

AUTHOR

       Theodore Y. Ts'o

AVAILABILITY

       libuuid is part of the util-linux package since version 2.15.1 and is available from ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.

SEE ALSO

       uuid(3), uuid_clear(3), uuid_copy(3), uuid_generate(3), uuid_is_null(3), uuid_parse(3), uuid_unparse(3)

util-linux							     May 2009							   UUID_COMPARE(3)