Re: HELP - dual boot with ms-xp

[Ray Henry <rehenry-at-up.net>]

Good thought, Jon.  I'll check it out.

Ray



On Friday 09 May 2003 12:00 pm, you wrote:
> 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
>
> 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