Looking for dual booting advice 2223

On Sun, 23 Jul 2006 15:40:49 -0700, PaulFXH

I'll stick with the advice I gave you earlier:

I don't know of any specific resource. If you found a video on the topic, you are ahead of me in knowing what is available. Web resources are plentiful, but hard to sift through. This gentoo wiki looks promising:

The wikipedia's explanation is a starting point:

Dual booting is not that difficult if you are familiar with the fundamental rules for parbreastioning layout, bootloaders, quirks of various OSs, and the methods of recovery if something goes wrong. The problem with these buttumptions is that most users have not had exposure to these fundamentals until they come up against the problem of wanting to add another OS to their computer. In the early days of the PC, users were exposed to these fundamentals; but now, the user is insulated from these facts because the OS arrives preinstalled. The other way a user gets introduced to the harsh world is when their hardware fails and they have been running with no backup plan.

IMO, understanding the fundamentals is the way to go.

The following is a broad outline of how to proceed.

0. Decide which distribution to use. A FAQ with no easy answer. Choose one that looks promising to you. Select candidates by how well you think the distro will meet your needs.

1. General understanding of what you are trying to do before starting setup (Parbreastion layout, relation of other OSs, etc.):

2. Bootloader (a separate component, not part of GNU-Linux per se.) I use the grub loader. Time spent learning about the loader will pay off

3. OS backup-restore-recovery-quirks (these techniques are all OS dependant). Not explained here.

You can see this topic becomes daunting to explain in a simple Q&A forum.

Unfortunately, web forums can only do so much. A friend, that can be right there to offer advice, is best. Do you know anyone who runs GNU-Linux? Is the a user group in your area? The alternative to that is to "hit the books."

-- Parker: Got a wonderful defense mechanism. You don't dare kill it.