Linux Emulator?

[bhxtyrant]

Only your CD-ROM,s and Hard drives connect to your IDE controllers,the floppy has it's own controller which is a little smaller then a standard IDE connector.If you need another drive there are a few options you can look into.

1.)Get a PCI IDE controller card-they are pretty cheap now a days and allow you to connect 4 additional IDE devices i currently use one in my PC works like a charm.
2.)Get a PCI Sata controller card-if you want to move towards the newer Sata hard drives.
3.)Get an external USB hard drive enclosure-Probally the easiest option of the 3 if you already have a spare hard drive.

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You didn't suggest SCSI... is that dead these days?

USB would be easiest but wouldn't it be really slow compared to an internal drive?

I would quite like a bootable Linux CD or something. If I went that route, could I install Linux programs to my HD while running Linux of the CD, or would the disk not be recognised?
If I had a bootable Linux USB key (say I copied a bootable CD onto a key) then presumably I could then just fire up FireFox and go download my free Intel compiler onto the key, which would be treated as the primary Linux partition?

I'm due to get broadband pretty soon, maybe then I'll download one of these 'magic CDs' and see what happens.