Re: HELP - dual boot with ms-xp

[Jon Elson <elson-at-pico-systems.com>]

Ray Henry wrote:

>I need to shrink an xp install and make space for linux and EMC on a Dell PC. 
>Dual boot using Grub or Lilo would be nice.  
>
>I'm completely ignorant of how to do this and what effect it might have on 
>the use of the MS recover disk when that other os goes to the hot place.
>
>As the Beetles used to say, "Help me if you can, I'm feeling down /And I do 
>appreciate your being round..."
>
>Ray
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My recommendation is to look at running the MS os as a guest under 
VMWare, and
keep Linux as the host system.  (People may start accusing me of being 
on VMWare's
payroll, but I have it running, and it is fantastic.  I SWEAR that Win 
2K is MORE
stable as a guest OS than when running on real hardware.)

This, of course, allows you to have BOTH os's running at the same time, 
but requires a
bit more memory.

Jon