On Mon, 07 Nov 2005 22:59 , Anthony Newman <anthony.newman@uk.clara.net> sent:

>Minty wrote:
>Boot partitions can be backed up easily, and you can always boot an
>install or live CD to give you the ability to fiddle and restore from
>Linuxland, which is also a useful skill to have on-tap for those
>irritating occasions when your shiny new kernel panics on boot :)

Another option that I have recently come across is that many motherboards now have a boot menu in bios which will allow you to boot from any device connected to your computer without changing the bios setting.  This includes USB or 2nd, 3rd, or 4th IDE/ATA hard drive.  Spending 20-40 quid on a small new hard drive, installing Linux with the boot loader on the new hard drive will let you dual boot with no problems at all.  I discovered this on my new computer after setting up VMware to use a complete hard drive rather than a file on the drive.  I then told my motherboard boot menu to boot of the 2nd hard drive and now I can boot my machine into Linux or into windows and if I am in windows I can boot the same linux using vmware.  Very nice if I just need to access something quickly in the linux system or have a process running under windows I don't want to stop.

Andy


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