duo boot systems...revisited, i think?

[John G. Heim]

I would recommend setting up a virtual machine instead of a dual boot 
system. The difference is that with a dual boot system, you boot into either 
linux or windows. With a virtual machine, either the linux or windows 
operating system runs as a virtual machine in the other operating system. 
But you don't have to reboot to get to the other operating system. I've 
found that the only time I use the "other" operating system on my dual boot 
machines is for testing purposes.  For instance, I'm typing this message on 
a machine that's dual boot but I haven't booted it into linux for months. 
Really since I set it up. Most often what I do is boot my old dual boot 
machine into linux and use that.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Karen Lewellen" <klewellen at shellworld.net>
Cc: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 12:02 AM
Subject: duo boot systems...revisited, i think?


> sigh,
> Just when I think I have a reasonable mind and the door to the hard ware, 
> I have to start all over again.
> I thought there was a discussion once about the need for a duo boot 
> system, but I cannot find this.
> pros cons, really needful?
> My goal remains for a number of reasons, a system with two separate 
> drives, I know I need not do this, but  just call me paranoid grin.
> for the foreseeable future, dos will remain my primary os, with the Linux 
> distro I use  on the second drive.
> I am building a different machine that will be a stand alone Linux server 
> box,  with some extras given the results of additional research.
> Sorry is this is a newbie question, but  after reading that the *official* 
> stock of Debian does not support speakup,...I am behind on reading the 
> rest of that thread, I am being more careful than ever.
> Thanks,
> Karen
>
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