duo boot systems...revisited, i think?

[Karen Lewellen]

confused, no, stressed yes.
i noted in my first reply that I wrote at an early hour.

It might have been respectful to ask if I were confusing the terms, not 
write  as if I were.
You  simply wrote in what seemed to me to be inconsiderate fashion.
Kerry has  been more helpful and i have the answers I need thanks.


On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, luke wrote:

> I am sorry to hear that about your nephew.
>
> That said, for what it's worth, I couldn't give a fig about your spelling,
> Karen.
> rather than criticizing your spelling, I was attempting to
> clarify your meaning.  You were talking about a "duo processor".  That to
> me suggests a "Core duo  processor", which is an Intel processor which, as
> far as I know, has no connection to this conversation.  It is a "dual
> core" processor, but if you thought that you need a dual core processor to
> setup a dual boot system, then you are mistaken.
>
> I thought that perhaps you were confused in some way, and thought you
> needed a "duo processor" to do "dual booting", which is certainly not
> true.  As such, I thought I would ask you about your meaning, in hopes of
> saving you some money if in fact you had a misimpression that a hardware
> change was needed in order to dual boot.  I was not talking about your
> spelling at all.
>
> If I some how misread your message, and you did not mention a "duo
> processor" as I thought for sure I read in your message, then I apologize
> for bothering you with my less than helpful help.  I will let the others
> who, as you say, had no trouble understanding you, help you in the future.
>
> Regards,
>
> Luke
>
>
> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>
>> I am sorry that my spelling is such an issue for you.
>> As expressed I wrote that post in the middle of the night.
>> Not shared however is that I learned that my 20 year old nephew died of a
>> heart attack in America, and i was more than  a bit  distracted.
>> Others seemed to understand my meaning,
>> Indeed my goal is to run DOS and Linux on different hard drives, and boot into
>> Linux as needed.
>> Is that clear enough for you?
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, luke wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, 17 Jul 2008, Karen Lewellen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Not running windows, but will hunt virtual options for DOs.
>>>
>>> There are no virtual options for DOS, at least not for running virtuals
>>> under DOS.  A virtual machine is one operating system which runs in an
>>> emulated hardware environment under another operating system.  Linux and
>>> Windows can run virtual  DOS machines, but DOS can not run virtual
>>> anythings.
>>>
>>> Now, for DOS under Linux, DOSEmu is probably a better solution than
>>> virtualization.
>>>
>>>> now that I think of it though, a reboot is no major factor, any way to
>>>> create
>>>> a . bat file run in dos that will reboot the system into Linux as needed
>>>> into
>>>> Linux without requiring the duo processor?
>>>
>>> What do you mean by "duo processor"?  If you are talking about multiple
>>> core processors, those have nothing to do with duel boot (duel not duo).
>>>
>>> Duel boot, is when you can boot into one of many operating systems which
>>> are installed on your machine, usually in separate hard drive partitions,
>>> or on separate hard drives.  That has no connection what ever, either to
>>> multiple processors, multiple cored processors, or duo anythings.
>>>
>>>> I have been dragging out this business long enough, but hardware and
>>>> talent
>>>> has been the issue.  I do not want yet another hardware factor because I
>>>> have
>>>> to find a duo processor.
>>>
>>> Again, what is this "duo" processor, and why do you need it?
>>>
>>> Luke
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