[newbie] Dual Boot

[Jan Van Uytven]

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On Tuesday 10 June 2003 09:42, Ian Ross wrote:
> On Tuesday 10 June 2003 08:33, Michael Wheatley wrote:
> > A Power Quest rep, Gene Barlow, gave a presentation to the BB&C user
> > group last night. He said XP is VERY nasty about controling the boot and
> > will cause problems. He recommended the boot utility that comes with
> > Partition Magic. I looks loke it would be worth considering. It is
> > available to user group members for $48CDN, at http://www.ugr.com/order/
> > with the user group order code UGJUN03. I expect there are lots of other
> > boot managers out there.
> >
> > Michael Wheatley
> >
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>
> I have been using a SuSE8.0/XPPro dual boot for quite a while and I haven=
't
> had a problem yet. They both seem to get along well in my case. Windows
> first then Linux were they way they were installed.

I've been using Gentoo Linux and Windows XP for a while now and never had a=
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problem. For my current laptop I actually installed Windows after Linux, th=
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only thing I had to do to get Linux back was to rerun grub from a boot CD a=
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modify the grub.conf appropriately.

Jan

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Jan (Wyvern) Van Uytven
Sysadmin, UVic TRIUMF
wyvern@uvic.ca

Randomly selected from my quote-file:

"History is the vast and tangled web of conspiracy"
	-Anon
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