best way to dual boot ?

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Scott said:
Hi,

What is the best way to dual boot a machine ?

install OS on separate partitions ?

Scott
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Installing OSs on separate partitions is more or less compulsory.
Even better: Use a boot manager that can selectively hide
partitions so that unused OSs are invisible and inaccessible.
 
Scott said:
Hi,

What is the best way to dual boot a machine ?

install OS on separate partitions ?

Scott
www.sage-eshop.com
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3rd party boot manager.

Don't mix apples and oranges. Put them in a different basket. Don't let
them see each other either.

Been using different versions of this since 2K.
http://www.v-com.com/product/System_Commander_Home.html

Imaging programs can copy all of this so you don't have to reinstall the
boot manager as long as they restore the full mbr area of the hard drive.
 
Scott said:
Hi,

What is the best way to dual boot a machine ?
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That is a naive question. There is no "best" in
anything. There is only that which is closest to
your requirements and resources. What are
the 2 OSes? How isolated must the 2 OSes be
from each other? Will you want to retrieve files
from one to the other? Are you willing to spend
money on a 3rd-party utility? Are you willing to
devote a partition to a 3rd-party boot manager?
Are you willing to learn how to edit the boot.ini
file? Do you have another hard drive available?
Do you know how to adjust the BIOS parameters?

There are basically 3 ways to dual-boot. Assuming
Windows, you can use ntldr, the standard boot
utility. You can buy 3rd-party software. You can
use the BIOS to set which hard drive will be given
boot control. You choose.

*TimDaniels*
 
Scott said:
Hi,

What is the best way to dual boot a machine ?

install OS on separate partitions ?
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There's a couple HOWTOs that shows the best known methods.

http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/MultiOS-HOWTO.html

My favorite option:

http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/Multiboot-with-GRUB.html


Note that if Windows is one of the OSs that you will be using, you should
probably go with the Multiboot with GRUB HOWTO and follow it IN ORDER,
since Windows is bloody annoying to deal with (well, moreso than normal) in
a multiboot environment.

You might want to search through this index for other possible options...

http://ursine.ca/cgi-bin/dwww/usr/share/doc/HOWTO/en-html/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
 
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