Speakup and vinux

[Pia]

On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, Martin McCormick wrote:

> Windows or Linux. One thing to watch out for is that the boot
> sector for Linux mustn't clobber the Windows boot sector. It
> does sometimes happen. I haven't ever set up a multiple-boot
> system so I can't help much there
>

The thing you want to do there is make sure that you install Windows first 
and that it is on your C: drive (ie, the first hard drive or hard drive 
partition in your system).  Then, you can install Linux.  Make sure when 
Linux installs its boot loader that it properly detects your Windows OS 
and that it sets it up to boot as well in a dual boot system.  With Ubuntu 
and Debian as what Vinux is based on, it is pretty clear when you get to 
that step, to explain to you what it has and has not detected.  I would 
stick with Grub as your boot loader instead of trying Grub 2 at this point 
because it is so new and I have not tried to dual boot a Windows / Linux 
box with it yet.  If anyone has, any comments would be nice.  In the 
Ubuntu installer I know it defaults to Grub 2 and so you have to 
explicitly tell it to use Grub Legacy.

HTH,

Pia